- Hardcover: 230 pages
- Publisher: Springer; Ill edition (1 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0387986928
- ISBN-13: 978-0387986920
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.7 x 0.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 663,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written in a provocative, witty, and highly accessible style, this is not only a splendid general introduction to the central questions of consciousness and brain science, but also an answer to some of them. The author -- noted Glaswegian chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith -- believes our feelings and sensations are not simply alternative descriptions of neural events but have themselves evolved and have physical effects in the brain as well as physical causes. Secrets of the Mind portrays a vision of the world as it may come to be seen by a future science. Sand, sea water, air, and the atoms from which such materials are made are now well understood by science, but the same can not be said of our personal feelings, our sensations and emotions. Science tells us that these too must be forms of quantum energy if they evolved, yet is only now beginning to explain how.
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Enjoyable, interesting, eloquent.... but, surprisingly and disappointingly, no mention whatsoever of the very considerable body of evidence that the mind.....consciousness.....must be more than an epiphenomenon of the brain in action.
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and sought his views.
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Focus on Qualia
1 Feb 2000
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I found this an excellent book, both in content and in writing style. His review of ideas about qualia is good, and his contributions on that subject important. I already believed that qualia are evolved entities (one of Cairns-Smith's main points), but after reading this book I have a clearer, sharper view of this. Little is said here about quantum effects as the source of consciousness, which is the right amount for me. If this book looks like something that might interest you, go for it.
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