This book is based on the International Symposium of Consciousness held at the University of Turku. The meeting took place during three warm summer days June 4–6, 1992. The purpose of the symposium was to gather together some of the leading philosophers and cognitive scientists who had recently participated in the discussion of the status of consciousness in science. The question addressed at the symposium was: Is it possible to incorporate consciousness into science? Philosophers have suggested different alternatives: that consciousness should be eliminated from science altogether because it is not a real phenomenon; that consciousness is a real, higher level physical or neurobiological phenomenon; and that consciousness is fundamentally ...
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