TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parks,Tim
TI  - Out of my head: on the trail of consciousness 
SN  - 9781911215714 (hbk.) :
AV  - BF311 
U1  - 153 PAR 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Harvill Secker
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Psychology
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out across the universe like butter on bread. Most philosophers believe that our experience is locked inside our skulls, an unreliable representation of a quite different reality outside. Colour, smell and sound, they tell us, occur only in our heads. Yet when neuroscientists look inside our brains to see what's going on, they find only billions of neurons exchanging electrical impulses and releasing chemical substances. 'Out of My Head' tells the gripping, highly personal, often surprisingly funny, story of Tim Parks' quest to discover more about this fascinating topic
ER  -