Excellent book. I’m glad I didn’t get turned away by the materialist reductionism at the beginning. Here is a summary:
Materialist Views
Chris Nunn is Associate Editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, and researcher and practitioner in the field. He begins his book by giving a survey of what is known about consciousness. He covers biology, […]
The main impediment to my writing reviews of the growing queue of finished books (more than 40 now), is the existence of new books to read. Today I started reading “De La Mettrie’s Ghost”, by Chris Nunn.
Rather than wait until completing the book to review it, and thus choosing yet another new book over review of the […]
I’ve been reading close to one book a week for the past year, and have nearly achieved Buddha-hood. I’ll be reviewing them all here eventually, now that I have a trusty C-Pen.
But today I am for the first time thinking of ditching a book on my self-assigned list. I just started reading “Space and Place: The Perspective […]
Aaron Clauset has a rambling post attempting to contrast science favorably with non-science. The key defining difference is easy to sum up; science seeks to disconfirm. The rest of his post talks about things that are shared by science and non-science alike.
He does quote a useful little statement, which can be applied to the “Metcalfe’s […]
I hadn’t heard of Owen Barfield before last month. Based on an interesting quote and a recommendation that he has a “unique epistemology”, I picked up a copy of “Saving the Appearances“, and just finished reading it.
It turns out the book isn’t really an epistomology, but rather a treatise on the author’s opinions about […]