The Feeling of Embodiment: A Case Study in Explaining Consciousness

By Glenn Carruthers

Book Overview

Chapter 1: The Real Problem of Consciousness.- Chapter 2: The Feeling of Embodiment: Our Target of Explanation.- Chapter 3: Off-line and On-line body representations.- Chapter 4: Explaining the feeling of embodiment: The feeling of embodiment occurs when an on-line body representation is matched to an off-line prototype.- Chapter 5: And then what happens?.- Chapter 6: Implications of the Real Problem of Consciousness for the sense of Embodiment: We need a hybrid account of consciousness.- Chapter 7: Completing the Hybrid Account: Awareness is a Functionally Emergent Kind.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030141691
• ISBN13: 9783030141691
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"