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How long does it take to read Consciousness?

an introduction

Susan Blackmore

Consciousness by Susan Blackmore takes about 9 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 9 hours 46 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2003. 533 pages, about 146,575 words.

20 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 16 hours 17 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 9 hours 46 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 6 minutes

The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Consciousness', 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, whilst also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.

Subjects: Consciousness, Bewustzijn, SCIENCE, Cognitive Science, PSYCHOLOGY, Cognitive Psychology

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