My book on Consciousness was
  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 description of my past and recent research.
And here are some interesting fragments -- mainly on the mysteries of vision -- that I left out of the book.

Order from Amazon.
Download penultimate draft of book.

updated Nov 1, 2024



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