The Explicit Animal: A Defence of Human Consciousness

by Raymond Tallis

Criticizes attempts to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes, to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain, and to eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312224184
• ISBN13: 9780312224189
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"