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The New Science of Consciousness - Exploring the Complexity of Brain, Mind, and Self (Hardcover)
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The New Science of Consciousness - Exploring the Complexity of Brain, Mind, and Self (Hardcover)
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This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying
consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and
complexity scientists. The author, a physicist turned
neuroscientist, outlines essential features of this partnership.
The new science goes well beyond traditional cognitive science and
simple neural networks, which are often the focus in artificial
intelligence research. It involves many fields including
neuroscience, artificial intelligence, physics, cognitive science,
and psychiatry. What causes autism, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's
disease? How does our unconscious influence our actions? As the
author shows, these important questions can be viewed in a new
light when neuroscientists and complexity scientists work together.
This cross-disciplinary approach also offers fresh insights into
the major unsolved challenge of our age: the origin of
self-awareness. Do minds emerge from brains? Or is something more
involved? Using human social networks as a metaphor, the author
explains how brain behavior can be compared with the collective
behavior of large-scale global systems. Emergent global systems
that interact and form relationships with lower levels of
organization and the surrounding environment provide useful models
for complex brain functions. By blending lucid explanations with
illuminating analogies, this book offers the general reader a
window into the latest exciting developments in brain research.
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