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The Feeling of Life Itself - Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (Hardcover)
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The Feeling of Life Itself - Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously
assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation
or a clever hack. In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch
offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any
subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most
exalted-the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which
cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception.
Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the
brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the
liver? How can the brain, three pounds of highly excitable matter,
a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same laws of
physics as any other piece, give rise to subjective experience?
Koch argues that what is needed to answer these questions is a
quantitative theory that starts with experience and proceeds to the
brain. In The Feeling of Life Itself, Koch outlines such a theory,
based on integrated information. Koch describes how the theory
explains many facts about the neurology of consciousness and how it
has been used to build a clinically useful consciousness meter. The
theory predicts that many, and perhaps all, animals experience the
sights and sounds of life; consciousness is much more widespread
than conventionally assumed. Contrary to received wisdom, however,
Koch argues that programmable computers will not have
consciousness. Even a perfect software model of the brain is not
conscious. Its simulation is fake consciousness. Consciousness is
not a special type of computation-it is not a clever hack.
Consciousness is about being.
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