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050		4	_aBF311 _b.M147 1999
100	1		_aMcGinn, Colin, _d1950-
245	1	4	_aThe mysterious flame : _bconscious minds in a material world / _cColin McGinn.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. : _bBasic Books, _cc1999.
300			_axiii, 242 p. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-236) and index.
505			_aConsciousness - Still Unexplained After All These Years -- Natural Mysteries and Biased Minds -- God, the Soul, and Parallel Universes -- Mind Space -- Secrets of the Self -- Could a Robot Get the Blues? -- The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy.
520			_a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650		0	_aConsciousness.
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