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Consciousness and the Social Brain
Langbeschreibung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: The TheoryChapter 1: The magic trickChapter 2: Introducing the theoryChapter 3: Awareness as informationChapter 4: Being aware versus knowing that you are awareChapter 5: The attention schemaChapter 6: Illusions and mythsChapter 7: Social attentionChapter 8: How do I distinguish my awareness from yours?Chapter 9: Some useful complexitiesPart II: Comparison to previous theories and resultsChapter 10: Social theories of consciousnessChapter 11: Consciousness as integrated informationChapter 12: Neural correlates of consciousnessChapter 13: Awareness and the machinery for social perceptionChapter 14: The neglect syndromeChapter 15: Multiple interlocking functions of the brain area TPJChapter 16: Simulating other mindsChapter 17: Some spiritual mattersChapter 18: Explaining the magic trick
Michael S. A. Graziano, Professor of Neuroscience at Princeton University, is an internationally renowned scientist and an award-winning novelist. His books include the popular science book God, Soul, Mind, Brain and the short novels The Divine Farce, The Love Song of Monkey, and Death My Own Way.
ISBN-13:
9780199928651
Veröffentl:
2013
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Michael S. A. Graziano
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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