Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It - Couverture rigide

Koch, Christof

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1541602803 ISBN 13 : 9781541602809

Editeur : Basic Books, 2024

Synopsis

In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of consciousness is the ability to exert causal power over itself, to be an agent of change. Koch investigates the physical origins of consciousness in the brain and how this knowledge can be used to measure consciousness in natural and artificial systems.

Enabled by such tools, Koch reveals when and where consciousness exists, and uses that knowledge to confront major social and scientific questions: When does a foetus first become self-aware? Can psychedelic and mystical experiences transform lives? What happens to consciousness in near-death experiences? Why will generative AI ultimately be able to do the very thing we can do, yet never feel any of it? And do our experiences reveal a single, objective reality?

This is an essential book for anyone who seeks to understand ourselves and the future we are creating.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Christof Koch is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute and at the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, the former president of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and a former professor at the California Institute of Technology. Author of four previous titles, Koch writes regularly for a range of media, including Scientific American. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1541602803
• ISBN 13: 9781541602809
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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