WHY RED DOESN’T SOUND LIKE A BELL: Understanding the FEEL of Consciousness
J. Kevin O’Regan, Oxford University Press, 2011
- In this book, Kevin O’Regan provides the definitive account of the “sensorimotor” approach to consciousness which he originally sketched with Alva Noë in 2001.
- The approach has received increasing interest in recent years in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and robotics.
- The approach is related to the growing body of interest in “embodied cognition”, or “enaction” which stresses the role of action and the body in thought and experience.
- The book is accessible to the educated reader yet also contains information of importance to specialists.
- In addition to providing a new view on consciousness, the book discusses in simple language recently discovered visual phenomena