The Mysterious Flame - by Colin McGinn (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of our most original thinkers addresses the scientific world's premier question: What is the nature of consciousness?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Is consciousness nothing more than brain tissue, as Daniel Dennett argues in his best-selling <i>Consciousness Explained</i> ? Or, as others claim, is it a fundamental reality like space, time, and matter? In recent years the nature of consciousness -- our immediately known experiences -- has taken its place as the most profound problem that science faces. Now in this brilliant and thoroughly accessible new book Colin McGinn takes a provocative position on this perplexing problem. Arguing that we can never truly know consciousness -- that the human intellect is simply not equipped to unravel this mystery -- he demonstrates that accepting this limitation in fact opens up a whole new field of investigation. Indeed, he asserts, consciousness is the best place from which to begin to understand the internal make-up of human intelligence, to investigate our cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and to explore the possibility of machine minds. In elegant prose, McGinn explores the implications of this Mysterian position -- such as the new value it gives to the power of dreams and of introspection -- and challenges the reader with intriguing questions about the very nature of our minds and brains.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Colin McGinn</b> is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is author of several books, including <i>The Character of the Mind; Moral Literacy; Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas; Ethics, Evil, and Fiction</i>; and <i>Mental Content</i>.
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