This is a study of several enduring problems of philosophy from a refreshing new vantage point. The book shows that we can learn much about these problems - including the mind-brain puzzle, the reality of time, and the rational justification of religious belief - by trying to answer a single, thought-provoking question about the relationship between conscious beings and the world in which they live.
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This is a study of several enduring problems of philosophy from a refreshing new vantage point. The book shows that we can learn much about these problems - including the mind-brain puzzle, the reality of time, and the rational justification of religious belief - by trying to answer a single, thought-provoking question about the relationship between conscious beings and the world in which they live.
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This book is a study of some long-standing philosophical puzzles about the nature of the universe in which we live. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
diachronic objects, subjective pastness, other consciousness events, subjective tenses, same subject history, subjective time order, modal ontological argument, experiential principle, logical incompleteness, persisting physical objects, tensed view, temporal flux, subjective fact, seeming which, subjective future, hemispheric processes, orange square, mental circumstances, merging subjects, persisting self, spatiotemporal world, persisting objects, temporal parts, conscious subject, physical time Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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diachronic objects, subjective pastness, other consciousness events, subjective tenses, same subject history, subjective time order, modal ontological argument, experiential principle, logical incompleteness, persisting physical objects, tensed view, temporal flux, subjective fact, seeming which, subjective future, hemispheric processes, orange square, mental circumstances, merging subjects, persisting self, spatiotemporal world, persisting objects, temporal parts, conscious subject, physical time Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Personal Identity (Great Debates in Philosophy) by Sydney Shoemaker on page 94, page 405, and Back Matter
- Philosophical Essays by G. W. Leibniz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Principles of Modern Physics by Robert B. Leighton in Back Matter
- Descartes: Discourse On Method by Laurence J. Lafleur in Back Matter
- Superstring Theory: Volume 2, Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) by Michael B. Green in Back Matter
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