Download or read book The Explicit Animal written by R. Tallis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticizes attempts to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes, to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain, and to eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia.