Portalism – An Externalist Theory of Consciousness Laird Paperback John Hunt

Portalism: An Externalist Theory of Consciousness\nby Jeffrey Laird\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jeffrey Laird\nTitle: Portalism: An Externalist Theory of Consciousness\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Philosophy of mind\nPublisher: Collective Ink\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9781803410388\nISBN-10: 1803410388\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe mind is not the brain. The locus of our consciousness is in the world. Portalism embraces radical phenomenal externalism and represents a contemporary form of dualism that rejects materialist assumptions of mind/brain identity. As a philosophy of mind, Portalism breaks with traditional thinking in two significant ways: first by holding that consciousness is in fact a fifth fundamental force of nature endowed with behavioura.