• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Sizing up consciousness : towards an objective measure of the capacity for experience
  • Contributor: Massimini, Marcello [VerfasserIn]; Tononi, Giulio [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
  • Issue: First edition
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource; illustrations (black and white)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198728443.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191841828
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: Cognition ; Consciousness
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
    This edition previously issued in print: 2018
    Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized
  • Description: 'Sizing up Consciousness' explores, at an introductory level, the potential practical, clinical, and ethical implications of a general principle about the nature of consciousness. Using information integration theory (IIT) as a guiding principle, the text takes the reader along a scientific trajectory to face fundamental questions about the relationships between matter and experience