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From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at
work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any
other--as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity
of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part
of science as well.
Galileo's journey has three parts, each with a different guide. In
the first, accompanied by a scientist who resembles Francis Crick,
he learns why certain parts of the brain are important and not
others, and why consciousness fades with sleep. In the second part,
when his companion seems to be named Alturi (Galileo is hard of
hearing; his companion's name is actually Alan Turing), he sees how
the facts assembled in the first part can be unified and understood
through a scientific theory--a theory that links consciousness to
the notion of integrated information (also known as phi). In the
third part, accompanied by a bearded man who can only be Charles
Darwin, he meditates on how consciousness is an evolving,
developing, ever-deepening awareness of ourselves in history and
culture--that it is everything we have and everything we are.
Not since "Godel, Escher, Bach" has there been a book that
interweaves science, art, and the imagination with such
originality. This beautiful and arresting narrative will transform
the way we think of ourselves and the world.
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