LEADER 03758nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910461300803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49917-6 010 $a9786613594402 010 $a0-262-30178-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160490 035 $a(OCoLC)780445330 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10537985 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611569 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12232674 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611569 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10666113 035 $a(PQKB)11473429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339403 035 $a(OCoLC)780445330$z(OCoLC)787844713$z(OCoLC)857960998$z(OCoLC)990594463 035 $a(OCoLC-P)780445330 035 $a(MaCbMITP)9367 035 $a(PPN)185654452 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339403 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10537985 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL359440 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160490 100 $a20111004d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConsciousness$b[electronic resource] $econfessions of a romantic reductionist /$fChristof Koch 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-53350-2 311 $a0-262-01749-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book--part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation--describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness. Koch recounts not only the birth of the modern science of consciousness but also the subterranean motivation for his quest--his instinctual (if 'romantic') belief that life is meaningful. Koch describes his own groundbreaking work with Francis Crick in the 1990's and 2000's and the gradual emergence of consciousness (once considered a 'fringy' subject) as a legitimate topic for scientific investigation. Present at this paradigm shift were Koch and a handful of colleagues, including Ned Block, David Chalmers, Stanislas Dehaene, Giulio Tononi, Wolf Singer, and others. Aiding and abetting it were new techniques to listen in on the activity of individual nerve cells, clinical studies, and brain-imaging technologies that allowed safe and noninvasive study of the human brain in action. Koch gives us stories from the front lines of modern research into the neurobiology of consciousness as well as his own reflections on a variety of topics, including the distinction between attention and awareness, the unconscious, how neurons respond to Homer Simpson, the physics and biology of free will, dogs, Der Ring des Nibelungen, sentient machines, the loss of his belief in a personal God, and sadness. All of them are signposts in the pursuit of his life's work--to uncover the roots of consciousness."--Jacket. 606 $aConsciousness 606 $aMind and body 606 $aFree will and determinism 606 $aLife 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConsciousness. 615 0$aMind and body. 615 0$aFree will and determinism. 615 0$aLife. 676 $a153 700 $aKoch$b Christof$f1956-$0600176 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461300803321 996 $aConsciousness$91917928 997 $aUNINA