From Sensing to Sentience: How Feeling Emerges from the Brain - Couverture souple

Feinberg, Todd E.

 
9780262550956: From Sensing to Sentience: How Feeling Emerges from the Brain
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262550954 ISBN 13 : 9780262550956
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2024

Synopsis

A new theory of Neurobiological Emergentism that explains how sentience emerges from the brain.

Sentience is the feeling aspect of consciousness. In From Sensing to Sentience, Todd Feinberg develops a new theory called Neurobiological Emergentism (NBE) that integrates biological, neurobiological, evolutionary, and philosophical perspectives to explain how sentience naturally emerges from the brain.

Emergent properties are broadly defined as features of a complex system that are not present in the parts of a system when they are considered in isolation but may emerge as a system feature of those parts and their interactions. Tracing a journey of billions of years of evolution from life to the basic sensing capabilities of single-celled organisms up to the sentience of animals with advanced nervous systems, including all vertebrates (for instance, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals), arthropods (insects and crabs), and cephalopods such as the octopus, Feinberg argues that sentience gradually but eventually emerged along diverse evolutionary lines with the evolution of sufficiently neurobiologically complex brains during the Cambrian period over 520 million years ago.

Ultimately, Feinberg argues that viewing sentience as an emergent process can explain both its neurobiological basis as well its perplexing personal nature, thus solving the historical philosophical problem of the apparent “explanatory gap” between the brain and experience.

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À propos de l?auteur

Todd E. Feinberg is Director of the Yarmon Neurobehavior and Alzheimer’s Disease Center of Mount Sinai Behavioral Health Center in New York City and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. He is coauthor of The Ancient Origins of Consciousness (MIT Press).

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262550954
ISBN 13 
9780262550956
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
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