Consciousness: confessions of a romantic reductionist
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| Beschreibung: | In which I introduce the ancient mind-body problem, explain why I am on a quest to use reason and empirical inquiry to solve it, acquaint you with Francis Crick, explain how he relates to this quest, make a confession, and end on a sad note -- In which I write about the wellsprings of my inner conflict between religion and reason, why I grew up wanting to be a scientist, why I wear a lapel pin of Professor Calculus, and how I acquired a second mentor late in life -- In which I explain why consciousness challenges the scientific view of the world, how consciousness can be investigated empirically with both feet firmly planted on the ground, why animals share consciousness with humans, and why self-consciousness is not as important as many people think it is -- - In which you hear tales of scientist-magicians that make you look but not see, how they track the footprints of consciousness by peering into your skull, why you don't see with your eyes, and why attention and consciousness are not the same -- In which you learn from neurologists and neurosurgeons that some neurons care a great deal about celebrities, that cutting the cerebral cortex in two does not reduce consciousness by half, that color is leached from the world by the loss of a small cortical region, and that the destruction of a sugar cube-sized chunk of brain stem or thalamic tissue leaves you undead -- In which I defend two propositions that my younger self found nonsense--you are unaware of most of the things that go on in your head, and zombie agents control much of your life, even though you confidently believe that you are in charge -- - In which I throw caution to the wind, bring up free will, Der ring des Nibelungen, and what physics says about determinism, explain the impoverished ability of your mind to choose, show that your will lags behind your brain's decision, and that freedom is just another word for feeling -- In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental property of complex things, rhapsodize about integrated information theory, how it explains many puzzling facts about consciousness and provides a blueprint for building sentient machines -- In which I outline an electromagnetic gadget to measure consciousness, describe efforts to harness the power of genetic engineering to track consciousness in mice, and find myself building cortical observatories -- - In which I muse about final matters considered off-limits to polite scientific discourse: to wit, the relationship between science and religion, the existence of God, whether this God can intervene in the universe, the death of my mentor, and my recent tribulations Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 181 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780262301787 0262301784 9780262017497 0262017490 |
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| spelling | Koch, Christof 1956- Verfasser aut Consciousness confessions of a romantic reductionist Christof Koch Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press ©2012 xii, 181 pages txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier In which I introduce the ancient mind-body problem, explain why I am on a quest to use reason and empirical inquiry to solve it, acquaint you with Francis Crick, explain how he relates to this quest, make a confession, and end on a sad note -- In which I write about the wellsprings of my inner conflict between religion and reason, why I grew up wanting to be a scientist, why I wear a lapel pin of Professor Calculus, and how I acquired a second mentor late in life -- In which I explain why consciousness challenges the scientific view of the world, how consciousness can be investigated empirically with both feet firmly planted on the ground, why animals share consciousness with humans, and why self-consciousness is not as important as many people think it is -- - In which you hear tales of scientist-magicians that make you look but not see, how they track the footprints of consciousness by peering into your skull, why you don't see with your eyes, and why attention and consciousness are not the same -- In which you learn from neurologists and neurosurgeons that some neurons care a great deal about celebrities, that cutting the cerebral cortex in two does not reduce consciousness by half, that color is leached from the world by the loss of a small cortical region, and that the destruction of a sugar cube-sized chunk of brain stem or thalamic tissue leaves you undead -- In which I defend two propositions that my younger self found nonsense--you are unaware of most of the things that go on in your head, and zombie agents control much of your life, even though you confidently believe that you are in charge -- - In which I throw caution to the wind, bring up free will, Der ring des Nibelungen, and what physics says about determinism, explain the impoverished ability of your mind to choose, show that your will lags behind your brain's decision, and that freedom is just another word for feeling -- In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental property of complex things, rhapsodize about integrated information theory, how it explains many puzzling facts about consciousness and provides a blueprint for building sentient machines -- In which I outline an electromagnetic gadget to measure consciousness, describe efforts to harness the power of genetic engineering to track consciousness in mice, and find myself building cortical observatories -- - In which I muse about final matters considered off-limits to polite scientific discourse: to wit, the relationship between science and religion, the existence of God, whether this God can intervene in the universe, the death of my mentor, and my recent tribulations Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index Koch, Christof / 1956- gnd Koch, Christof 1956- Koch, Christof 1956- (DE-588)110512014 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1900-2000 PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology bisacsh SCIENCE / Cognitive Science bisacsh Consciousness fast Free will and determinism fast Life fast Mind and body fast Geschichte Neurosciences History 20th century Neurosciences History 21st century Neuroscientists Biography Consciousness Mind and body Free will and determinism Life Willensfreiheit (DE-588)4079320-5 gnd rswk-swf Geist (DE-588)4019830-3 gnd rswk-swf Bewusstsein (DE-588)4006349-5 gnd rswk-swf Leib-Seele-Problem (DE-588)4035151-8 gnd rswk-swf Neurowissenschaftler (DE-588)7595810-7 gnd rswk-swf Körper (DE-588)4031575-7 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Bewusstsein (DE-588)4006349-5 s Willensfreiheit (DE-588)4079320-5 s Leib-Seele-Problem (DE-588)4035151-8 s Neurowissenschaftler (DE-588)7595810-7 s 1\p DE-604 Körper (DE-588)4031575-7 s Geist (DE-588)4019830-3 s 2\p DE-604 Koch, Christof 1956- (DE-588)110512014 p 3\p DE-604 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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