| #3887953 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 2000-12-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.72 x1.06 x6.85l,2.63 | File type: PDF | 524 pages | ||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Tough going at times, but worth it.|By Daryl Anderson|If you are, like me, an "amateur" when it comes to the study of the mind, you have probably sought to balance your reading of philosophers like Dennett with something more solid from the science of mind. "Enchanted Looms" is a fine place to do that. This is not a book to sweep through in a few days. You will want to||"The book is well structured, moving easily between anatomical detail, functional theories, methodologies and the analyses of others, making it mandatory reading for those considering doing research on this topic." Times Higher Education Supplement
The title of this book was inspired by a passage in Charles Sherrington's Man on his Nature. When that famous physiologist died in 1952, the prospects for a scientific explanation of consciousness seemed remote. Enchanted Looms shows how the situation has changed dramatically over the past forty years, and provides what is probably the most wide-ranging account of the phenomenon ever written. Rodney Cotterill bridges the gap between the bottom-up approach to understandi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers | Rodney Cotterill. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
