Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
£8.50
“A first-class intellectual adventure.” —Brian Greene, author of Until the End of Time
Illuminating his groundbreaking theory of consciousness, known as the attention schema theory, Michael S. A. Graziano traces the evolution of the mind over millions of years, with examples from the natural world, to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention and then to construct awareness of the external world and of the self. His theory has fascinating implications for the future: it may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially, and even someday taking the natural consciousness of a person and uploading it into a machine for a digital afterlife.
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Additional information
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company (17 Sept. 2019) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 3952 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 215 pages |
by DJF
Exactly as advertised and within timeframe quoted
by BG
After reading far too much philosophy around consciousness that is not worth the paper it’s written on, I am truly in awe of the relative simplicity of the ‘Attention Schema’ theory and just how convincing it is.
As an engineer, this needs to be read much more widely in the machine learning/AI community.
Artificial consciousness, I am sure, is closer than we think if we just thought a bit more imaginatively and ditched our ego-centric biases around our own consciousness.