What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that a
Consciousness and the Social Brain
โ Scribed by Graziano, Michael S. A
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2013;2015
- Tongue
- English
- Edition
- Paperback
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Part I: The Theory
Chapter 1: The magic trick
Chapter 2: Introducing the theory
Chapter 3: Awareness as information
Chapter 4: Being aware versus knowing that you are aware
Chapter 5: The attention schema
Chapter 6: Illusions and myths
Chapter 7: Social attention
Chapter 8: How do I distinguish my awareness from yours?
Chapter 9: Some useful complexities
Part II: Comparison to previous theories and results
Chapter 10: Social theories of consciousness
Chapter 11: Consciousness as integrated information
Chapter 12: Neural correlates of consciousness
Chapter 13: Awareness and the machinery for social perception
Chapter 14: The neglect syndrome
Chapter 15: Multiple interlocking functions of the brain area TPJ
Chapter 16: Simulating other minds
Chapter 17: Some spiritual matters
Chapter 18: Explaining the magic trick
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