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A BOOK OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN,
FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERG Anil Seth's radical new theory of
consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and
reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary
biology. 'A brilliant beast of a book.' DAVID BYRNE 'Hugely
important.' JIM AL-KHALILI 'Masterly . . . An exhilarating book: a
vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a
seminal text.' GAIA VINCE, GUARDIAN Being You is not as simple as
it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons
work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? Why
do we experience life in the first person? After over twenty years
researching the brain, world-renowned neuroscientist Anil Seth puts
forward a radical new theory of consciousness and self. His unique
theory of what it means to 'be you' challenges our understanding of
perception and reality and it turns what you thought you knew about
yourself on its head. 'Seth thinks clearly and sharply on one of
the hardest problems of science and philosophy, cutting through
weeds with a scientist's mind and a storyteller's skill.' ADAM
RUTHERFORD 'A page-turner and a mind-blower . . . Beautifully
written, crystal clear, deeply insightful.' DAVID EAGLEMAN 'If you
read one book about conciousness, it must be Seth's. JULIAN
BAGGINI, WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Amazing.' RUSSELL BRAND 'Gripping.'
ALEX GARLAND 'I loved it.' MICHAEL POLLAN 'Fascinating.' FINANCIAL
TIMES 'Awe-inspring.' NEW STATESMAN 'Brilliant.' CLAIRE TOMALIN,
NEW YORK TIMES
How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from
the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century,
consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science.
Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness
is recognized as a key objective for 21st century science. The
cognitive neuroscience of consciousness is a fundamentally
multidisciplinary enterprise, involving powerful new combinations
of functional brain imaging, computational modelling, theoretical
innovation, and basic neurobiology. Its progress will be marked by
new insights not only into the complex brain mechanisms underlying
consciousness, but also by novel clinical approaches to a wide
range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. These innovations
are well represented by the contents of the present volume. A
target article by Victor Lamme puts forward the contentious
position that neural evidence should trump evidence from behaviour
and introspection, in any theory of consciousness. This article and
its several commentaries advance one of the fundamental debates in
consciousness science, namely whether there exists non-reportable
phenomenal consciousness, perhaps dependent on local rather than
global neural processes. Other articles explore the wider terrain
of the new science of consciousness. For example, Maniscalco and
colleagues use theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation to
selectively impair metacognitive awareness; Massimini and coworkers
examine changes in functional connectivity during anesthesi, and
Vanhaudenhuyse et al describe innovations in detecting residual
awareness following traumatic brain injury. Together, then contents
of this volume exemplify the `grand challenge of consciousness' in
combining transformative questions about the human condition with a
tractable programme of experimental and theoretical research.
How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from
the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century,
consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science.
Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness
is recognized as a key objective for 21st century science. The
cognitive neuroscience of consciousness is a fundamentally
multidisciplinary enterprise, involving powerful new combinations
of functional brain imaging, computational modelling, theoretical
innovation, and basic neurobiology. Its progress will be marked by
new insights not only into the complex brain mechanisms underlying
consciousness, but also by novel clinical approaches to a wide
range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. These innovations
are well represented by the contents of the present volume. A
target article by Victor Lamme puts forward the contentious
position that neural evidence should trump evidence from behaviour
and introspection, in any theory of consciousness. This article and
its several commentaries advance one of the fundamental debates in
consciousness science, namely whether there exists non-reportable
phenomenal consciousness, perhaps dependent on local rather than
global neural processes. Other articles explore the wider terrain
of the new science of consciousness. For example, Maniscalco and
colleagues use theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation to
selectively impair metacognitive awareness; Massimini and coworkers
examine changes in functional connectivity during anesthesi, and
Vanhaudenhuyse et al describe innovations in detecting residual
awareness following traumatic brain injury. Together, then contents
of this volume exemplify the `grand challenge of consciousness' in
combining transformative questions about the human condition with a
tractable programme of experimental and theoretical research.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FST TCS 2002, held in Kanpur, India in December 2002.The 26 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. A broad variety of topics from the theory of computing are addressed, from algorithmics and discrete mathematics as well as from logics and programming theory.
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Making Sense - Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity (Standard format, CD, Library Edition)
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