From brains to consciousness? : essays on the new sciences of the mind / edited by Steven Rose

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Contents: Brains, minds and the world / Steven Rose -- The human brain: 100 billion connected cells / John Parnavelas -- The pharmacology of thought and emotion / Trevor Robbins -- Memory and brain systems / Larry R. Squire -- The physiological basis of memory / Tim Bliss -- Ageing of the brain: is mental decline inevitable? / A. David Smith -- Why there will never be a convincing theory of schizophrenia / Richard Bentall -- Nuclear schizophrenic symptoms as the key to the evolution of modern homo sapiens / Tim J. Crow -- Can a computer understand? / Roger Penrose -- A neurocomputational view of consciousness / Igor Aleksander -- Flagging the present with Qualia / Richard Gregory -- How might the brain generate consciousness? / Susan Greenfield -- Consciousness from a neurobiological perspective / Wolf Singer -- One world, but a big one / Mary Midgley