What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of
neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain,
Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new
theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human
brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially
intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be
studied in detail. One function of this circuitry is to attribute
awareness to others: to compute that person Y is aware of thing X.
In Graziano's theory, the machinery that attributes awareness to
others also attributes it to oneself. Damage that machinery and you
disrupt your own awareness. Graziano discusses the science, the
evidence, the philosophy, and the surprising implications of this
new theory. Now in an affordable paperback edition!
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