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Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fascinating insights await you in these pages.” --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Original...s As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience. What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we? In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it. Conscious offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness—allowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can.
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"The last great mystery for science," consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction challenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free ...will, and the soul. 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 opening up these debates, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments and clearly describes the major theories, with illustrations and lively cartoons to help explain the experiments. Topics include vision and attention, theories of self, experiments on action and awareness, altered states of consciousness, and the effects of brain damage and drugs. This lively, engaging, and authoritative book provides a clear overview of the subject that combines the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience--and serves as a much-needed launch pad for further exploration of this complicated and unsolved issue. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
The Robot Chronicles
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Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI
Science World Luminary John Brockman Assembles Twenty-five Of The Most Important Scientific Minds, People Who Have Been Thinking About The Field Artificial Intelligence For Most Of Their Careers, For ...An Unparalleled Round-table Examination About Mind, Thinking, Intelligence And What It Means To Be Human--
The A.I. Chronicles
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Consciousness: An Introduction
Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself just an illusion? The last great mystery of science, consciousness was excluded from serious research for most ...of the last century but is now a rapidly expanding area of study for students of psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Recently the topic has also captured growing popular interest. This groundbreaking book is the first volume to bring together all the major theories of consciousness studies—from those rooted in traditional Western philosophy to those coming out of neuroscience, quantum theory, and Eastern philosophy. Broadly interdisciplinary, Consciousness: An Introduction is divided into nine sections that examine such topics as how subjective experiences arise from objective brain processes, the basic neuroscience and neuropathology of consciousness, altered states of consciousness, mystical experiences and dreams, and the effects of drugs and meditation. It also discusses the nature of self, the possibility of artificial consciousness in robots, and the question of whether or not animals are conscious. Enhanced by numerous illustrations and profiles of important researchers, the book also includes self-assessment questions, further reading suggestions, and practical exercises that help bring the subject to life. Library Journal How can the subjective feelings of consciousness arise from the firing of synapses? Is there an added something that causes us to be self-aware? Or could it be that consciousness is just an illusion or an ephemeral byproduct? We don't know the answers-indeed, we are only beginning to formulate the questions, even though philosophers have been considering these issues for centuries. Though this work is intended as a college textbook, Blackmore (The Meme Machine) makes accessible to general readers the evolution of consciousness, machine intelligence, dreams, and the paranormal, drawing on philosophical, neuroscientific, and quantum theory perspectives from both the West and the East. The author, also a practitioner of Zen meditation, ends with chapters on Buddhism, which, she claims, explores these questions from an experiential perspective. The explanations of abstruse arguments are clear, and the writing is livelier than is the norm in textbooks. Recommended for all academic and large public libraries; Rita Carter's equally fine Exploring Consciousness is another good choice that covers the same core material in a less expensive hardcover format.-Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind
this Book Has Long Been Known As A Classic In The Study Of Human Consciousness, Having Been Praised By Such Luminaries As P. D. Ouspensky And The Psychologist William James. The Author Puts Forth And ...Supports The Idea That Human Consciousness Is Evolving And That We, As Human-kind, Are Moving Toward A Much More Enlightened State. People Who Have Experienced Such States And Who Have Appeared At Certain Times To Move Humanity Forward Are Covered In The Book Including Such Figures As Jesus, Mohammed, Francis Bacon, Socrates, Spinoza, Emerson, Thoreau And Many More. Bucke Also Writes From First-hand Experience, Having Had His Consciousness Briefly Awakened At Age 35. According To Theauthor The Evidence Is Clear-all People At Some Time In The Future Will Have Far More Wisdom And Intelligence Than We Do Today.
Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future
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Introducing Consciousness
Introducing Consciousness starts with the problem of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, explains the historical origins of this problem, and traces different scientific attempts to ex...plain consciousness. Along the way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat.
Genes vs Cultures vs Consciousness: A Brief Story of Our Computational Minds
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