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E-raamat: Consciousness: The Science of Subjectivity

(University of Turku, Finland)
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The study of consciousness is recognized as one of the biggest remaining challenges to the scientific community. This book provides a fascinating introduction to the new science that promises to illuminate our understanding of the subject.

Consciousness covers all the main approaches to the modern scientific study of consciousness, and also gives the necessary historical, philosophical and conceptual background to the field. Current scientific evidence and theory from the fields of neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging and the study of altered states of consciousness such as dreaming, hypnosis, meditation and out-of-body experiences is presented. Revonsuo provides an integrative review of the major existing philosophical and empirical theories of consciousness and identifies the most promising areas for future developments in the field.

This textbook offers a readable and timely introduction to the science of consciousness for anyone interested in this compelling area, especially undergraduates studying psychology, philosophy, cognition, neuroscience and related fields.

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"With Consciousness: the Science of Subjectivity Antti Revonsuo has written a wonderfully clear, very well-organized and insightful introduction to the philosophical and empirical study of consciousness. ... He employs a crystal clear language and organizes his paragraphs and introduction of very diverse philosophical and empirical theories in an explanatory order. The shortness of the paragraphs makes it easy to digest new information. This is further aided by the short summaries and enumeration of discussion questions at the end of each chapter and the glossary at the end of the book. All of this makes this an excellent introduction in the study of subjectivity for the beginning student, but equally so for the conference participants in the big interdisciplinary conferences on consciousness." - Fauve Lybaert, University of Leuven, in Metapsychology Online Reviews

"Everybody talks about consciousness, but hardly anyone has written a textbook about it that could be used as the basis for a survey course. Revonsuos book closes that gap." - John F. Kihlstrom, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

"This book provides a major new discussion of consciousness, suitable for a wide range of readers. It is written in an admirably clear and scholarly way, and covers a wide range of issues thrown up by recent philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific research on consciousness. It would be excellent as a primary text for many introductory courses on consciousness, and I think this book will quickly become a major text in the area." - Steve Torrance, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex

Revonsuos book is very well organized and as such offers a highly systematic approach to what is often a chaotic assembly of conflicting ideas. Students will particularly like the range and the inclusion of chapters on altered states, hypnosis and meditation, etc., particularly as some of this is the authors specialty. - Guy Saunders, Department of Psychology, University of the West of England "Everybody talks about consciousness, but hardly anyone has written a textbook about it that could be used as the basis for a survey course. Revonsuos book closes that gap." - John F. Kihlstrom, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

"This book provides a major new discussion of consciousness, suitable for a wide range of readers. It is written in an admirably clear and scholarly way, and covers a wide range of issues thrown up by recent philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific research on consciousness. It would be excellent as a primary text for many introductory courses on consciousness, and I think this book will quickly become a major text in the area." - Steve Torrance, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, UK

"Revonsuos book is very well organized and as such offers a highly systematic approach to what is often a chaotic assembly of conflicting ideas. Students will particularly like the range and the inclusion of chapters on altered states, hypnosis and meditation, etc., particularly as some of this is the authors specialty." - Guy Saunders, Department of Psychology, University of the West of England, UK

List of Figures
xviii
Introduction xx
Acknowledgements xxvii
Part one BACKGROUND TO THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
1(98)
The philosophical foundations of consciousness science
3(44)
Introduction
4(1)
The First Distinction: Dualism and Monism
4(1)
Definition of dualism
4(1)
Definition of monism
5(1)
Dualistic Theories of Consciousness
5(11)
Interactionism
6(2)
Cartesian dualism: The paradigm case of interactionism
8(2)
Epiphenomenalism
10(4)
Parallelism
14(2)
Monistic Theories of Consciousness
16(23)
Materialism (or physicalism) defined
17(1)
Eliminative materialism
17(4)
Reductive materialism
21(3)
Microphysicalism: The ultimate reductionism
24(2)
Emergent materialism
26(6)
Summary of monistic materialism
32(1)
Idealism
33(2)
Neutral monism
35(2)
Functionalism
37(2)
Why the Mind-Body Problem will not Go Away
39(8)
The ``Explanatory Gap'' and the ``Hard Problem''
39(1)
Subjectivity
40(2)
What is it like to be a bat?
42(1)
Future science and consciousness
43(1)
Philosophical problems and consciousness
44(1)
Chapter Summary
44(1)
Further Reading
45(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
45(2)
The historical foundations of consciousness science
47(22)
Introduction
48(1)
The 1800s: from Philosophy to Experimental Science of Consciousness
48(2)
Phrenology
48(1)
Psychophysics
49(1)
Introspectionism: the First Scientific Psychology of Consciousness
50(5)
Wilhelm Wundt and the birth of psychological science
50(1)
Titchener and structuralism: The atoms of consciousness
51(3)
William James and the stream of consciousness
54(1)
The Fall of Introspectionism as a Science of Consciousness
55(7)
Gestalt psychology: Consciousness is holistic, not atomistic
56(2)
Behaviourism: How consciousness became taboo in scientific psychology
58(2)
Freud's critique of consciousness
60(2)
From Cognitive Science to the Science of Consciousnes
62(7)
Cognitive science: A science of mind, but devoid of consciousness
62(1)
Phoenix rising: Emergence of the modern science of consciousness
63(4)
Chapter Summary
67(1)
Further Reading
67(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
68(1)
The conceptual foundations of consciousness science
69(30)
Introduction
70(1)
How to Describe the Subjective Reality of Consciousness
70(19)
Phenomenal consciousness: The fundamental form of subjectivity
70(1)
Qualia
71(1)
The state of being conscious and the specific contents of consciousness
72(1)
The internal structure of phenomenal consciousness: Centre and periphery
73(4)
Attention and consciousness
77(1)
Change blindness and inattentional blindness
78(2)
Reflective consciousness
80(2)
Introspection
82(4)
Self-awareness
86(3)
Concepts to Describe the Absence of Consciousness
89(4)
Unconscious
89(1)
Nonconscious
90(1)
Zombies
90(3)
Alternative Definitions and Usages of the Concept of ``Consciousness''
93(6)
Consciousness defined as the ability to respond to stimulation
93(1)
Consciousness defined as the ability to represent information from the external world
94(1)
Consciousness defined as wakefulness
95(1)
Consciousness defined as access to output systems, control of behaviour or behavioural interactions with the world
95(1)
Consciousness and awareness
95(1)
Chapter Summary
96(1)
Further Reading
97(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
97(2)
Part two CENTRAL DOMAINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE
99(182)
Neuropsychology of consciousness
99(1)
Introduction: what are the Central Domains of Consciousness Science?
99(2)
Neuropsychological deficits of visual consciousness
101(14)
Introduction: the Unity of Visual Consciousness
102(1)
Cerebral Achromatopsia: Colour Qualia Vanish without a trace
103(2)
Visual Agnosia: Loss of Coherent Visual Objects
105(1)
Semantic Dementia: Loss of the Meaning of Objects
106(2)
Simultanagnosia: Loss of the Phenomenal Background
108(1)
Neglect: Loss of Phenomenal Space
109(2)
Akinetopsia: Loss of Visual Animation
111(4)
Chapter Summary
112(1)
Further Reading
113(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
114(1)
Neuropsychological dissociations of visual consciousness from behaviour
115(20)
Introduction: what is a Neuropsychological Dissociation?
116(2)
Dissociations and Consciousness
118(9)
Blindsight
119(2)
Implicit visually guided action
121(2)
Implicit face recognition in prosopagnosia
123(3)
Implicit recognition of words and objects in neglect
126(1)
Theories of the Conscious/Nonconscious Dissociations
127(8)
Chapter Summary
131(1)
Further Reading
132(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
133(2)
Neuropsychological disorders of self-awareness
135(18)
Introduction
136(1)
Amnesia
136(2)
Split-Brain
138(4)
Anosognosia
142(1)
Somatoparaphrenia (Asomatognosia)
143(2)
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Deficits of Belief Systems
145(6)
Capgras delusion
145(2)
Fregoli delusion
147(1)
The left-hemisphere interpreter and the right-hemisphere devil's advocate
147(1)
Chapter Summary
148(1)
Further Reading
149(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
150(1)
Neural correlates of consciousness (NCC)
151(1)
Introduction: what is a ``Neural Correlate of Consciousness'' (NCC)?
151(2)
Methods and design of NCC experiments
153(6)
Introduction: how to Design NCC Experiments
154(1)
Functional Brain Imaging Methods: MRI and Pet
154(1)
Electromagnetic Brain Sensing with EEG and MEG
155(4)
Chapter Summary
157(1)
Further Reading
157(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
157(2)
Studies on the neural basis of consciousness as a state
159(6)
Introduction: Consciousness as a State
160(1)
Anaesthesia
160(1)
Epileptic Seizures and Deep Sleep
161(1)
Locked-in Syndrome
162(1)
Vegetative State and other Global Disorders of Consciousness
162(1)
Inverse Zombies
163(2)
Chapter Summary
163(1)
Further Reading
164(1)
Brief Discussion Question
164(1)
Studies on the neural basis of visual consciousness
165(12)
Introduction: Visual Information and Visual Consciousness
166(1)
Binocular Rivalry Studies
166(2)
Visual Hallucinations
168(1)
EEG and MEG Experiments on Visual Consciousness
169(2)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
171(4)
Chapter Summary
172(1)
Further Reading
173(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
173(2)
Theories of consciousness
175(1)
Introduction: what is a Theory of Consciousness?
175(2)
Philosophical theories of consciousness
177(28)
Review of Current Philosophical Theories of Consciousness
178(27)
Multiple drafts theory (Dennett)
178(3)
Sensorimotor theory (O'Regan and Noe)
181(2)
Biological naturalism (Searle)
183(2)
Naturalistic dualism (Chalmers)
185(2)
Higher order theories (HOTs) of consciousness
187(2)
Externalist representationalism (Tye, Dretske)
189(3)
Neurophenomenology (Varela, Lutz, Thompson, Noe)
192(3)
Reflexive monism (Velmans)
195(2)
Virtual reality theory (Metzinger, Lehar)
197(4)
Chapter Summary
201(1)
Further Reading
202(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
203(2)
Empirical theories of consciousness
205(24)
Review of Current Empirical Theories of Consciousness
206(15)
Global workspace theory (Baars)
206(2)
Neurobiological theory (Crick and Koch)
208(3)
The dynamic core (Tononi and Edelman) and the information integration theory (Tononi)
211(2)
Thalamocortical binding theory (Llinas)
213(1)
Recurrent processing theory (Lamme)
214(3)
Microconsciousness theory (Zeki)
217(1)
Consciousness as the feeling of what happens (Damasio)
218(3)
Analysis: Major Issues of Disagreement in Theories of Consciousness
221(1)
The location of consciousness: Externalism vs. internalism
221(1)
The fundamental nature of consciousness: Phenomenology vs. cognition
222(7)
The fundamental form of phenomenal consciousness: Atomism vs. holism
223(1)
Conclusions
223(1)
Chapter Summary
224(1)
Further Reading
224(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
225(2)
Altered states of consciousness
227(2)
What is an ``altered state of consciousness'' (ASC)?
229(6)
Introduction
230(1)
How to Define ``Altered State of Consciousness''
230(5)
Chapter Summary
232(1)
Further Reading
233(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
233(2)
Dreaming and sleep
235(18)
Introduction: a Brief History of Dreaming and Consciousness
236(4)
Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations
240(1)
Sleep Paralysis
240(1)
Sleep Mentation vs. Dreaming
241(1)
The Contents of Dreaming
241(4)
Why do we Dream?
245(1)
Lucid Dreaming
246(2)
Bad Dreams and Nightmares
248(1)
Night Terrors
249(1)
Sleepwalking and Nocturnal Wandering
249(1)
Rem Sleep Behaviour Disorder and Dreamwalking
250(3)
Chapter Summary
250(1)
Further Reading
251(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
252(1)
Hypnosis
253(10)
Introduction
254(1)
Brief History of Hypnosis
255(1)
Hypnotic Induction
256(1)
Hypnotic Suggestibility
257(1)
Is Hypnosis an ASC?
257(2)
What Happens to Consciousness Under Hypnosis?
259(4)
Chapter Summary
260(1)
Further Reading
261(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
261(2)
Higher states of consciousness
263(18)
Introduction
264(1)
Meditation
264(1)
Optimal Experience and Flow
265(1)
Runner's High
266(1)
Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs)
267(3)
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs)
270(5)
Mystical Experiences
275(6)
Chapter Summary
278(1)
Further Reading
278(1)
Brief Discussion Questions
279(2)
Epilogue 281(12)
Glossary 293(12)
References 305(8)
Author Index 313(3)
Subject Index 316
 



Antti Revonsuo is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Skövde, Sweden, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Turku, Finland. He has been conducting research on consciousness since the early 1990s and has directed an undergraduate degree programme on consciousness studies since 1997. He is best known for his evolutionarypsychological theory of dreaming, the threat-simulation theory.