Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience write by Michael S A Graziano. This book was released on 2019-09-17. Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A first-class intellectual adventure.” —Brian Greene, author of Until the End of Time Illuminating his groundbreaking theory of consciousness, known as the attention schema theory, Michael S. A. Graziano traces the evolution of the mind over millions of years, with examples from the natural world, to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention and then to construct awareness of the external world and of the self. His theory has fascinating implications for the future: it may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially, and even someday taking the natural consciousness of a person and uploading it into a machine for a digital afterlife.
Consciousness and the Social Brain
Consciousness and the Social Brain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consciousness and the Social Brain write by Michael S. A. Graziano. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Consciousness and the Social Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in detail. One function of this circuitry is to attribute awareness to others: to compute that person Y is aware of thing X. In Graziano's theory, the machinery that attributes awareness to others also attributes it to oneself. Damage that machinery and you disrupt your own awareness. Graziano discusses the science, the evidence, the philosophy, and the surprising implications of this new theory.
The Spaces Between Us
The Spaces Between Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spaces Between Us write by Michael S. A. Graziano. This book was released on 2018. The Spaces Between Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hidden beneath consciousness, the brain mechanisms controlling personal space affect every aspect of our lives-- social, emotional, cultural, and practical. A neuroscientist, award-winning novelist, and science columnist for The Atlantic, Graziano tells this compelling story with humor, drama, and a deeply personal connection.
Consciousness Demystified
Consciousness Demystified - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consciousness Demystified write by Todd E. Feinberg. This book was released on 2018-09-25. Consciousness Demystified available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap between understanding the brain as an objectively observed biological organ and accounting for the subjective experiences that come from the brain (and life processes). In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt attempt to demystify consciousness—to naturalize it, by explaining that the subjective, experiencing aspects of consciousness are created by natural brain processes that evolved in natural ways. Although subjective experience is unique in nature, they argue, it is not necessarily mysterious. We need not invoke the unknown or unknowable to explain its creation. Feinberg and Mallatt flesh out their theory of neurobiological naturalism (after John Searle's biological naturalism) that recognizes the many features that brains share with other living things, lists the neural features unique to conscious brains, and explains the subjective–objective barrier naturally. They investigate common neural features among the diverse groups of animals that have primary consciousness—the type of consciousness that experiences both sensations received from the world and affects such as emotions. They map the evolutionary development of consciousness and find an uninterrupted progression over time, without inserting any mysterious forces or exotic physics. Finally, bridging the previously unbridgeable, they show how subjective experience, although different from objective observation, can be naturally explained.
What Is a Person?
What Is a Person? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Is a Person? write by Christian Smith. This book was released on 2011-11-30. What Is a Person? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence.
