Life of Brain

The Nature and Origins of Conscious Experience

Ray Fuller

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Austin Macauley Publishers
15 September 2023

Conscious & unconscious

This book is about everything that goes on in your conscious experience: sensations, perceptions, feelings, thoughts, imagination, plans, expectations. It's also about your conscious experience of self, the sense that there is a YOU behind everything, a YOU that is having all these experiences, a YOU that seems to control all those activities of the mind.

Some of the questions it explores:

- What is conscious experience?

- How did it evolve?

- Why did it evolve?

- How does it develop in the young child?

- What can we do with it?

- Why might it cause us problems?

- Why is it still a mystery?

This book is NOT about the neurological landscape and its functions studied by the neuroscientist armed with the latest fMRI technology (which incidentally measures brain activity indirectly through the flow of blood in response to different tasks). You don't have to know brain anatomy, you don't have to tell your hippocampus from your hypothalamus.

This book will be of interest to YOU if you have ever wondered about the nature of conscious experience and the workings of your own consciousness. It may well tell you more about YOU than any other book you have ever read.

Students of psychology, philosophy and evolution will find it of particular relevance to their areas of inquiry.

By: Ray Fuller
Imprint: Austin Macauley Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 331g
ISBN: 9781398434448
ISBN 10: 1398434442
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 15 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ray Fuller is a Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a professor of Psychology and head of department. He taught and researched aspects of human behaviour and mental processes for 40 years. He has edited seven books on traffic safety, aviation safety and the history of psychology and published widely in the research literature on human risk-taking. Since retirement to S.W. France, he has found time to build stone walls, make furniture, and write. A 'prequel' to this book, Six Confessions of the Self-Serving Brain, was published in 2021. His first book for children, Mid-Winter Bleak, was published in 2020.