[vslist] Book announcement: The World In Your Head

[Steve Lehar]

The following book has just been released by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates:

The World In Your Head: A Gestalt view of the mechanism of conscious experience.

Steven Lehar

This book represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind. Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the mind, this book begins with an examination of conscious experience to see what it can tell us about the brain. Through this analysis, the first and most obvious observation is that consciousness appears as a volumetric spatial void, containing colored objects and surfaces. This reveals that the representation in the brain takes the form of an explicit volumetric spatial model of external reality. The world we see around us therefore is not the real world itself, but merely a miniature virtual-reality replica of that world in an internal representation. This insight allows us to examine the world of visual experience not as scientists exploring the external world, but as perceptual scientists examining a rich and complex internal representation. 

For more information on the book, see...
http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/webstuff/book/WIYH.html

A short illustrated on-line summary of the key ideas behind the book can be found at...
http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/epist/epist.html

The author's home page can be found at...
http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/
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