Giulio Tononi
Autor(a) de A Universe Of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination
Obras por Giulio Tononi
Consciousness: Here, There and Everywhere? 1 exemplar
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A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes… por Gerald M. Edelman
The authors present an intriguing theory of consciousness based on his previous work in the field of cognitive science. In doing so they challenge some of the conventional wisdom about the nature of consciousness while providing challenging food for thought. This is one of the essential books to read regarding consciousness along with those of Dennett and others.
This book, even being 18 years out of date, is far beyond the comprehension of many 21st Century readers. I know I struggled. A lot.
The terrible subtitle almost put me off. Go look at this thing in person, everyone. It's really beautiful.
This is physically a lovely book, with fine art illustrations and whimsical photographs. The conception is to explain consciousness as integrated information, the phi of the title. The exposition is in the form of three dreams of Galileo, as he is toured about by Francis Crick, Alan Turing, and Charles Darwin. The dreams are colorfully described, not straightforward neuroscience, and the author comments on each chapter in a footnote, often pretending that the contents were not his -"this chapter seems to be saying that ...". I found that tic annoying. I also did not find much new information; the clinical cases described in the first dream are all familiar to me, and the insights of the last dream are fanciful.… (mais)
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