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Though Edelman and Tononi do make a good effort to help out the lay reader, ultimately A Universe of Consciousness is aimed at the interdisciplinary gang of scientists and academics trying to understand our shared but invisible experience. The first sections of the book cover the basic philosophical, psychological, and biological elements essential to their theory. Swiftly the authors proceed to define terms and concepts (even the long-abused term complexity gets a reappraisal) and elaborate on these to create a robust, testable theory of the neural basis of consciousness. Following this hard work, they consider some ramifications of the theory and take a close look at language and thinking. This much-needed jump-start is sure to provoke a flurry of experimental and theoretical responses; A Universe of Consciousness might just help us answer some of the greatest questions of science, philosophy, and even poetry. --Rob Lightner -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Everyone knows what consciousness is: It is what abandons you every evening when you fall asleep and reappears the next morning when you wake up. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Most of the book was mentally stimulating but the jargon in Part V, Untangling the Knot, became a hair ball that wouldn't cough up. By their own admission the knot would not come untied. It quickly gets tiresome to hear how brain image resolution has not advanced to the point of solving the neuron's place in unraveling consciousness. The book was thick with tautological niceties such as "consciousness is the ability of being conscious of being conscious." Their attempt to divide the subject into primary consciousness and higher order consciousness was equally arbitrary. For me, re-tieing the mind-body knot in a "less tangled form," didn't pull the little red wagon forward very much. Still the authors paved the way for genetic, sub-neuron investigations that may well untie the knot. There is a mountain to scale here and it does little good to pretend you are near the top. But yes, the hardcover was well worth its reasonable price.
The authors describe their work as a "theory of consciousness"--completely misleading in another sense. Even if we were able to precisely understand what neural processes lead to consciousness, which neurons were involved, etc., the consciousness mystery still would not be solved. The most fascinating and mysterious question is "HOW do the neural processes lead to consciousness?" Uncovering the neural processes associated with consciousness is a great way to begin, perhaps the only way. However, to call the authors' work a "theory of consciousness" is absurd. Imagine a 18th century person able to view the modern automobile through timetravel. Suppose here were able to deduce that turning a key started the automobile, pushing the right pedal made it accelerate, etc. before he was forced to return to his time. Would his knowledge be a "theory of the automobile"? Only in an extremely superficial sense. He would know how the automobile worked, but would have no idea as to the physical mechanisms (e.g. electromagnetism) at play.
I DO recommend this book but I strongly suggest that you pay close attention to the *data* and consider it yourself.
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