Volume 42, Number 18 · November 16, 1995
The Mystery of Consciousness: Part II
By John R. Searle
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by Francis Crick
Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 317 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Consciousness Explained
by Daniel C. Dennett
Back Bay/Little, Brown, 511 pp., $15.95 (paper)
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
by Gerald M. Edelman
BasicBooks, 346 pp., $35.00
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind
by Gerald M. Edelman
BasicBooks, 304 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
by Roger Penrose
Oxford University Press, 457 pp., $25.00
The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten: An Anatomy of Consciousness
by Israel Rosenfield
Vintage, 157 pp., $10.00 (paper)
Can we find a convincing account of how brain processes cause—or even could cause—our conscious experiences? That is the question I raised in the previous issue.[*] It is differently addressed in all the books under review, and indeed some of the writers do not think the relation of brain to consciousness is a causal relation in the first place.
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