SEEING RED:
A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS
by Nicholas Humphrey.
The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2006

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OUTLINE OF BOOK'S
FACTS & IDEAS
1-20-16

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 GUEST LECTURES --- At Harvard University in Spring 2004

1) The purpose of this book is to explain why consciousness matters and why people are so concerned with their own personal survival of death. (p1-7)

2) What is it like for you to see the color red? (p9-35)

3) Why do human beings experience the world in such a complex way?

4) What is the evolutionary history of our human consciousness? (p37-73)

4) What is consciousness made of? (p75-99)
    Does "experience of sensation" equal "neuronal activity"? (p76)
5) By putting sensation within the sphere of agency, on the production side of the mind rather than the reception side, what we get from our model of sensation is the possibility of a significant degree of central control of what it's like. (p101-109)

6) What do people intuit about the "X-factor" of brainpower? (p111-129)

7) Consciousness matters because it is its function to matter! (p131-134)
    It has been designed to create in human beings a self worth pursuing.

    The self is there for us. That is a huge advance over not being there!
NOTES (p135-146)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (p147-148)

INDEX (p149-151)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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