Volume 52, Number 1 · January 13, 2005

Consciousness: What We Still Don't Know

By John R. Searle
The Quest for Consciousness
by Christof Koch

Roberts and Company, 429 pp., $45.00

Much has recently been written about the subject of consciousness, thanks to the revival of interest in disciplines as various as philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neurobiology. Of these various fields of research the one that I think is most likely to have important long-term results is neurobiology, where the race to solve the problem of consciousness is now on.



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