The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World : Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines.

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Body matter; 1: Capturing the Butterfly of Thought; 2: The Five Tests for Being Conscious; 3: Sleep, Dreams and the Unconscious; 4: The Octopus with a Stomach Ache; 5: The Missing Gorilla; 6: Knowing What We Want; 7: Chalmers' Two Minds; 8: Unfinished Business; Back matter; Appendix; Bibliography; Also available.

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Body matter; 1: Capturing the Butterfly of Thought; 2: The Five Tests for Being Conscious; 3: Sleep, Dreams and the Unconscious; 4: The Octopus with a Stomach Ache; 5: The Missing Gorilla; 6: Knowing What We Want; 7: Chalmers' Two Minds; 8: Unfinished Business; Back matter; Appendix; Bibliography; Also available

Not consciousness, but knowledge of consciousness: that is what this book communicates in a fascinating way. Consciousness is the thread that links the disappearing gorilla with the octopus suffering from a stomach ache, and the person under anaesthetic with a new born baby. How these are different, yet illustrative of consciousness, is revealed in this accessible book by one of the world's leading thinkers and neural computing engineers. Igor Aleksander addresses this enigmatic topic, by ma.