Conversations on Consciousness

In Conversations on Consciousness , Susan Blackmore brings together some of the great minds of our time, a who´s who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding "what kind of a machine we are." Some of the interviewees are major philosophers (such as John Searle, Ned Block, and David Chalmers) and some are equally renowned scientists (Francis Crick, Roger Penrose, V.S. Ramachandran). All of them talk candidly with Blackmore about some of the key philosophical issues confronting us, about some of the key philosophical issues confronting us, in a series of conversations that are revealing, insightful, and stimulating.
1. Introduction 2. Bernard Baars 3. Ned Block 4. David Chalmers 5. Patricia and Paul Churchland 6. Francis Crick 7. Daniel Dennett 8. Susan Greenfield 9. Richard Gregory 10. Stuart Hameroff 11. Christof Koch 12. Stephen LaBerge 13. Thomas Metzinger 14. Roger Penrose 15. Kevin O´Regan 16. Vilayanur Ramachandran 17. John Searle 18. Petra Stoerig 19. Francisco Varela 20. Max Velmans 21. Daniel Wegner Glossary Index