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Published on: 1/1/2005
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with Andrew Brook
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Expected to hit the shelves in summer of 2005, A Unified Theory of Consciousness, a new book by the Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science and Professor of Philosophy, Andrew Brook, is sure to be popular among students and researchers alike.
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Before they develop their own analysis, Brook and Raymont first tackle the opposition.
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"In order to argue that consciousness is simply part of processing information, we need to show those who think it's totally different from anything else in mind that they do not have a sound case," says Brook.In particular, they show that some famous ‘thought-experiments' do not show that consciousness is unique, unlike anything else in the mind.
Brook has studied consciousness throughout his academic career.The idea for this book was conceived while writing his first book, Kant and the Mind in the late 1980s.
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"Consciousness is at the centre of nearly everything distinctively human," says Brook.