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Consciousness and the Social Brain de Michael Graziano

Consciousness and the Social Brain

Autor Michael Graziano
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 sep 2015
Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the mystery of consciousness. Suitable for general readers and scientific researchers alike, Graziano's book explores the science, philosophy, and implications of linking consciousness with social intelligence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190263195
ISBN-10: 0190263199
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Descriere

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. Now in an affordable paperback edition!

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In most scientific theories, awareness emerges from the physical functioning of the brain, almost like heat rising from circuits. Laid out in his recent book...Graziano's theory takes a completely different approach to explaining consciousness. 'In this theory, the brain is an information-processing device. It doesn't produce non-physical essences
The author offers an engaging and accessible explanation of his theory. Rather than merely touting its merits, he aims to show how it is compatible with other popular theories. Avoiding technical details, he uses anecdotes, drawings, and metaphors to convey an understanding of the important concepts. [This book] turns the field's contemporary wisdom on its head, and from its new vantage point one has the sense that an answer to the problem of consciousness might be in sight. Graziano's attention schema theory marks a milestone by offering a plausible, mechanistic answer to the hard problem."
Graziano proposes a new and intriguing theory of consciousness... [He] guides readers step-by-step through his captivating and convincing theory of consciousness, explaining how the theory accounts for many oddities in human perception. This book is an essential read for anyone interested in consciousness from either a scientific or philosophical perspective."

Notă biografică

Michael S. A. Graziano, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Princeton University, is an internationally renowned scientist and an award-winning novelist. His books include the popular science title God, Soul, Mind, Brain and the short novels The Divine Farce, The Love Song of Monkey, and Death My Own Way.