SEEING RED: A STUDY IN CONSCIOUSNESS by Nicholas Humphrey. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006 OUTLINE OF BOOK'S FACTS & IDEAS 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" = "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 (cover) Instantly return to: LIST OF BRAIN BOOKS