The feeling of life itself: why consciousness is widespread but can't be computed

✍ Scribed by Koch, Christof

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 750 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Cambridge, Massachusetts
• ISBN: 0262354438

✦ Synopsis

An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack.;Preface : consciousness redux -- What is consciousness? -- Who is conscious? -- Animal consciousness -- Consciousness and the rest -- Consciousness and the brain -- Tracking the footprints of consciousness -- Why we need a theory of consciousness -- Of wholes -- Tools to measure consciousness -- The uber-mind and pure consciousness -- Does consciousness have a function? -- Computationalism and experience -- Computers can't simulate experience -- Consciousness : here, there but not everywhere -- Coda : why this matters -- References -- Notes.

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