Consciousness
A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition

تعرف ايه عن الوعى يا مرسى. ولا يا بهجت .. هو احنا عندنا حاجه فى المنهج اسمها وعى؟ قد تعتقد عندما تقرأ العنوان انك تعرف كل شىء و لكن مع تقليبك لصفحات الكتاب و تقلبك فيما فيه و مدى تقبلك لأفكاره من عدمه ستكتشف انك لا تعرف معنى الوعى اصلا. هل هو الذات ام الإدراك أم مستوى الذكاء و الإنتباه. هل هى الأمانه و......more

The Self is illusion – so says the Buddha; and Susan Blackmore agrees, albeit with more scientific evidence as backup. *** The Hard Problem We are sure that there is a world outside, filled with inanimate and live things. However, we can experience this world only through our senses: the colours, the s......more

This is a very clear, well-written exposition on a difficult subject, but it is by no means a neutral review of the field as one might expect from a 'very short introduction'. Instead, Susan Blackmore promotes her own thesis, sympathetic to the work of Daniel Dennett, in which a single inner self wi......more