Performing Human Consciousness: A Philosophical Investigation into the Staging of the Mind

Is the mind like a theatrical performance? This comparison has often been used as a conceptual tool by neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists in trying to understand what constitutes the human mind, and in particular how the comings and goings and the character transformations on the stage and in the scripted text give us visible access to the hidden workings of the human mind.

Performing Human Consciousness makes use of this metaphor to explore the variety of ways in which the priv...