skip to content
Radiant cool : a novel theory of consciousness Preview this item
ClosePreview this item

Radiant cool : a novel theory of consciousness

Author: Dan Edward Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Professor grue is dead (or is he?). When greduate student/sleuth Miranda Sharpe discovers him slumped over his keyboard, she does the sensible thing-she grabs her dissertatin and runs. Little does she suspect that soon she will be probing the heart of two mysteries, trying to discover what happened to Max Grue, and trying to slove the profound neurophilosophical problem of consciousness.
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Genre/Form: Didactic fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dan Edward Lloyd
ISBN: 0262122596 9780262122597 0262621932 9780262621939
OCLC Number: 52757086
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: xvii, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Thrill of Phenomenology --
The Real Firefly: Reflections on a Science of Consciousness --
The Wrong Toolbox? --
One and Many Consciousnesses --
Detectorheads --
Houses, Faces, Chairs --
The Real Firefly --
Clever Leeches and Sympathetic Thermostats --
Everything Goes --
Real Life: The Subjective View of Objectivity --
Stage 1: Intentionality --
Stage 2: Superposition --
Stage 3: Transcendence --
Stage 4: Temporality --
Stage 5: Temporality (1), the Threefold Present --
Stage 6: Temporality (2), the Order of Moments --
Stage 7: Temporality (3), Phenomenal Recursivity --
The Rest of the Story --
Brains in Toyland --
Beep ... Boop --
CNVnet --
Into the Net --
Having It All --
Our Multivariate World --
Toy Temporality --
What Is It Like to Be a Net? --
Braintime --
Indices of Temporality --
Tributaries of the Stream --
Retention Revealed --
To the Future --
And Beyond?.
Responsibility: Dan Lloyd.

Abstract:

Professor grue is dead (or is he?). When greduate student/sleuth Miranda Sharpe discovers him slumped over his keyboard, she does the sensible thing-she grabs her dissertatin and runs. Little does she suspect that soon she will be probing the heart of two mysteries, trying to discover what happened to Max Grue, and trying to slove the profound neurophilosophical problem of consciousness.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.