Conscious Mind In Search of a Fundamental Theory

"Mr. Chalmers aims to restore the traditional dualist agenda that mind and body are separate. He argues that consciousness 'escapes the net of reductive explanation,' the kind of account given when scientists explain the whole in terms of its parts. The reader prepares for a leap into mysticism, but Mr. Chalmers instead produces a more startling assertion, that the extra ingredient needed to explain consciousness is a new scientific principle, one based on properties of information...."Chalmers, David John is the author of 'Conscious Mind In Search of a Fundamental Theory', published 1997 under ISBN 9780195117899 and ISBN 0195117891.