Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience): 11

by Benjamin Libet (Author), Benjamin Libet (Author)

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Illustrated
2005
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Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings - and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet gives his own account of these experiments and their importance for our understanding of consciousness.

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Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings - and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet gives his own account of these experiments and their importance for our understanding of consciousness.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 272
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 04 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 067401846X
ISBN 13: 9780674018464
Book Overview: Mind Time makes for extremely interesting, engaging reading. Its discussions of consciousness, subjectivity, free will, and perception will intrigue anybody in philosophy or psychology interested in those topics. This is a valuable book to have available. -- David Rosenthal, Philosophy and Cognitive Science Graduate Center, City University of New York Benjamin Libet's discoveries are of extraordinary interest. His is almost the only approach yet to yield any credible evidence of how conscious awareness is produced by the brain. Mind Time endeavors to clarify these startling observations for the general public, set them in proper framework of neuroscientific knowledge, and probe their philosophical meaning. Libet's work is unique, and speaks to questions asked by all humankind. -- Robert W. Doty, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester This book is strikingly different from most of the other books on consciousness in one key respect: it focuses on empirical discoveries, not speculation or argument. -- From the Foreword by Stephen Kosslyn

Media Reviews

'What makes Benjamin Libet different from all the others writing on [consciousness]... is that he has actually spent the past 40 years experimenting on the topic. His findings have played a central role in others' speculations. Now he has put his life's work into a single short book.' - Steven Rose, New Scientist

Author Bio

Benjamin Libet is Professor Emeritus of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis.