Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of Consciousness

The nature of human consciousness is a mystery that philosophers, artists, and scientists have struggled with for centuries. What is the basis for our awareness of ourselves and the universe around us? Some believe consciousness to be a purely physical phenomenon; others think it transcends the material world. In Stairway to the Mind, Alwyn Scott offers a new perspective-based exclusively on evidence from the natural sciences-in which materialism and dualism co-exist.
The author, a distingu…