I'm pleased to announce that my book on Consciousness was
just published with Oxford University Press (NY) on June 17th, 2011!
Here are front and back cover and cover flaps, and table of contents:









CONTENTS

Preface

PART 1: THE FEEL OF SEEING
1. The catastrophe of the eye
2. A new view of seeing
3. Applying the new view of seeing
4. The illusion of seeing everything
5. Some contentious points

PART 2: THE FEEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
6. Towards consciousness
7. Types of consciousness
8. Phenomenal consciousness, raw feel, and why they're hard
9. Squeeze a sponge, drive a Porsche: a sensorimotor account of feel
10. Consciously experiencing a feel
11. The sensorimotor approach to color
12. Sensory substitution
13. The localization of touch
14. The phenomenality plot
15. Consciousness





There's a facebook page for the book which contains a short summary of each chapter.
Here is my main web page with all sorts of demonstrations.
And here are some interesting fragments -- mainly on the mysteries of vision -- that I left out of the book.

To order the book from OUP: you can pay £32 instead of £40 by ordering online: visit www.oup.com/uk/medicine, add to your shopping basket and enter promotional code AMPROMO8
From Amazon for $46.99

updated July 22nd, 2011



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