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Title: Consciousness: At the Frontiers of Neuroscience (Advances in Neurology, V. 77) by Herbert H. Jasper, Universite De Montreal Centre De Recherche En Sciences Neurologiques I, Laurent Descarries ISBN: 0-7817-1504-0 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $169.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great
Comment: This is an amazing collection, as most collections on the science of consciousness are, for the exitement the topic arises.
It is at times a bit too technical, like in E. Jones or Steriade's chapters on thalamic neurobiology. Other chapter are too abstract or "dated" (or is it classical?). But there are also jewels, like the clearest introduction to Edelman and Tononis, Crick and Kotchs, and Jeffrey Grays theories of consicousness. This last chapter was specially interesting, as Grays model of the contents of consicousness was used to study schitzofrenia. Gazzaniga and his interpreter seem more plausible solutions to some major troubles in consicousness theorizing every time I read him. Chapters on language and development are also there and great, as well as one on vision, by no other than H.Hubel, along with T. Weasel, one of the most influential neuroscientists of vision. Philosophical introductions by Patricia Churchland and D. Chalmers and other unmentioned contributions were also quite good.
The cream is however, found on the comment sessions after each paper and the general session at the end of the book. Debates at that level are seldom recorded, and are extremely interesting and though-provoking.
A must-have for serious researchers and thinkers on consciousness.