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Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist / / Christof Koch
| Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist / / Christof Koch |
| Autore | Koch Christof <1956-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts, : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - History - 20th century
Neurosciences - History - 21st century Neuroscientists Consciousness Mind and body Free will and determinism Life |
| Soggetto non controllato |
NEUROSCIENCE/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-30103-2
1-280-49917-6 9786613594402 0-262-30178-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | In which I introduce the ancient mind-body problem, explain why I am on a quest to use reason and empirical inquiry to solve it, acquaint you with Francis Crick, explain how he relates to this quest, make a confession, and end on a sad note -- In which I write about the wellsprings of my inner conflict between religion and reason, why I grew up wanting to be a scientist, why I wear a lapel pin of Professor Calculus, and how I acquired a second mentor late in life -- In which I explain why consciousness challenges the scientific view of the world, how consciousness can be investigated empirically with both feet firmly planted on the ground, why animals share consciousness with humans, and why self-consciousness is not as important as many people think it is -- In which you hear tales of scientist-magicians that make you look but not see, how they track the footprints of consciousness by peering into your skull, why you don't see with your eyes, and why attention and consciousness are not the same -- In which you learn from neurologists and neurosurgeons that some neurons care a great deal about celebrities, that cutting the cerebral cortex in two does not reduce consciousness by half, that color is leached from the world by the loss of a small cortical region, and that the destruction of a sugar cube-sized chunk of brain stem or thalamic tissue leaves you undead -- In which I defend two propositions that my younger self found nonsense--you are unaware of most of the things that go on in your head, and zombie agents control much of your life, even though you confidently believe that you are in charge -- In which I throw caution to the wind, bring up free will, Der ring des Nibelungen, and what physics says about determinism, explain the impoverished ability of your mind to choose, show that your will lags behind your brain's decision, and that freedom is just another word for feeling -- In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental property of complex things, rhapsodize about integrated information theory, how it explains many puzzling facts about consciousness and provides a blueprint for building sentient machines -- In which I outline an electromagnetic gadget to measure consciousness, describe efforts to harness the power of genetic engineering to track consciousness in mice, and find myself building cortical observatories -- In which I muse about final matters considered off-limits to polite scientific discourse: to wit, the relationship between science and religion, the existence of God, whether this God can intervene in the universe, the death of my mentor, and my recent tribulations. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790196503321 |
Koch Christof <1956->
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts, : MIT Press, ©2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist / / Christof Koch
| Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist / / Christof Koch |
| Autore | Koch Christof <1956-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts, : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - History - 20th century
Neurosciences - History - 21st century Neuroscientists Consciousness Mind and body Free will and determinism Life |
| Soggetto non controllato |
NEUROSCIENCE/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-30103-2
1-280-49917-6 9786613594402 0-262-30178-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | In which I introduce the ancient mind-body problem, explain why I am on a quest to use reason and empirical inquiry to solve it, acquaint you with Francis Crick, explain how he relates to this quest, make a confession, and end on a sad note -- In which I write about the wellsprings of my inner conflict between religion and reason, why I grew up wanting to be a scientist, why I wear a lapel pin of Professor Calculus, and how I acquired a second mentor late in life -- In which I explain why consciousness challenges the scientific view of the world, how consciousness can be investigated empirically with both feet firmly planted on the ground, why animals share consciousness with humans, and why self-consciousness is not as important as many people think it is -- In which you hear tales of scientist-magicians that make you look but not see, how they track the footprints of consciousness by peering into your skull, why you don't see with your eyes, and why attention and consciousness are not the same -- In which you learn from neurologists and neurosurgeons that some neurons care a great deal about celebrities, that cutting the cerebral cortex in two does not reduce consciousness by half, that color is leached from the world by the loss of a small cortical region, and that the destruction of a sugar cube-sized chunk of brain stem or thalamic tissue leaves you undead -- In which I defend two propositions that my younger self found nonsense--you are unaware of most of the things that go on in your head, and zombie agents control much of your life, even though you confidently believe that you are in charge -- In which I throw caution to the wind, bring up free will, Der ring des Nibelungen, and what physics says about determinism, explain the impoverished ability of your mind to choose, show that your will lags behind your brain's decision, and that freedom is just another word for feeling -- In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental property of complex things, rhapsodize about integrated information theory, how it explains many puzzling facts about consciousness and provides a blueprint for building sentient machines -- In which I outline an electromagnetic gadget to measure consciousness, describe efforts to harness the power of genetic engineering to track consciousness in mice, and find myself building cortical observatories -- In which I muse about final matters considered off-limits to polite scientific discourse: to wit, the relationship between science and religion, the existence of God, whether this God can intervene in the universe, the death of my mentor, and my recent tribulations. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812588403321 |
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Koch Christof <1956->
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts, : MIT Press, ©2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conversations on consciousness [[electronic resource] ] : what the best minds think about the brain, free will, and what it means to be human / / Susan Blackmore
| Conversations on consciousness [[electronic resource] ] : what the best minds think about the brain, free will, and what it means to be human / / Susan Blackmore |
| Autore | Blackmore Susan J. <1951-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 126 |
| Soggetto topico |
Consciousness
Philosophers Neuroscientists |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-70445-4
0-19-803989-1 1-4237-4659-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Bernard Baars -- Ned Block -- David Chalmers -- Patricia and Paul Churchland -- Francis Crick -- Daniel Dennett -- Susan Greenfield -- Richard Gregory -- Stuart Hameroff -- Christof Koch -- Stephen LaBerge -- Thomas Metzinger -- Kevin O'Regan -- Roger Penrose -- Vilayanur Ramachandran -- John Searle -- Petra Stoerig -- Francisco Varela -- Max Velmans -- Daniel Wegner. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451835303321 |
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Blackmore Susan J. <1951->
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conversations on consciousness [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Blackmore
| Conversations on consciousness [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Blackmore |
| Autore | Blackmore Susan J. <1951-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vi, 274 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 126 |
| Soggetto topico |
Consciousness
Neuroscientists Philosophers |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-19-160486-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154332103321 |
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Blackmore Susan J. <1951->
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dream life [[electronic resource] ] : an experimental memoir / / J. Allan Hobson
| Dream life [[electronic resource] ] : an experimental memoir / / J. Allan Hobson |
| Autore | Hobson J. Allan <1933-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, England, : MIT Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina |
616.80092
B |
| Soggetto topico | Neuroscientists |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-11914-5
9786613119148 0-262-29559-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Biologically speaking: an experimental autobiography -- Brain birth: a non-immaculate conception -- Brain growth: the illusion and reality of being a self -- Brain state: a self organizing process -- My experimental nature -- The genesis of my experimentalism -- Marginal modes of being -- Experimental social structures -- The nature of my experiments -- Psychoanalysis as thesis -- Brain science as antithesis -- Cognitive neuroscience as synthesis -- Experiments of nature -- Brain shock -- Brain death -- Heart failure -- Back ache -- Sleep strangulation -- Implications of my experiments -- Scientific -- Humanistic -- Philosophical -- Functional conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461610203321 |
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Hobson J. Allan <1933->
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| Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, England, : MIT Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dream life : an experimental memoir / / J. Allan Hobson
| Dream life : an experimental memoir / / J. Allan Hobson |
| Autore | Hobson J. Allan <1933-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina | 616.80092 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neuroscientists
Dreams Dream interpretation Rapid eye movement sleep Consciousness |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
NEUROSCIENCE/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
1-283-11914-5
9786613119148 0-262-29559-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Biologically speaking: an experimental autobiography -- Brain birth: a non-immaculate conception -- Brain growth: the illusion and reality of being a self -- Brain state: a self organizing process -- My experimental nature -- The genesis of my experimentalism -- Marginal modes of being -- Experimental social structures -- The nature of my experiments -- Psychoanalysis as thesis -- Brain science as antithesis -- Cognitive neuroscience as synthesis -- Experiments of nature -- Brain shock -- Brain death -- Heart failure -- Back ache -- Sleep strangulation -- Implications of my experiments -- Scientific -- Humanistic -- Philosophical -- Functional conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789569903321 |
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Hobson J. Allan <1933->
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dream life : an experimental memoir / / J. Allan Hobson
| Dream life : an experimental memoir / / J. Allan Hobson |
| Autore | Hobson J. Allan <1933-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina | 616.80092 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neuroscientists
Dreams Dream interpretation Rapid eye movement sleep Consciousness |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
NEUROSCIENCE/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
1-283-11914-5
9786613119148 0-262-29559-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Biologically speaking: an experimental autobiography -- Brain birth: a non-immaculate conception -- Brain growth: the illusion and reality of being a self -- Brain state: a self organizing process -- My experimental nature -- The genesis of my experimentalism -- Marginal modes of being -- Experimental social structures -- The nature of my experiments -- Psychoanalysis as thesis -- Brain science as antithesis -- Cognitive neuroscience as synthesis -- Experiments of nature -- Brain shock -- Brain death -- Heart failure -- Back ache -- Sleep strangulation -- Implications of my experiments -- Scientific -- Humanistic -- Philosophical -- Functional conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807381603321 |
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Hobson J. Allan <1933->
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Handling digital brains [[electronic resource] ] : a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers / / Morana Alač
| Handling digital brains [[electronic resource] ] : a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers / / Morana Alač |
| Autore | Alač Morana |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/2 |
| Collana | Inside technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Human-computer interaction
Semiotics Neuroscientists Brain mapping Brain - Magnetic resonance imaging |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-11907-2
9786613119070 0-262-29547-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | In the fMRI laboratory -- fMRI brain visuals as fields for interaction -- fMRI brain imaging and the experience of sound -- fMRI brain visuals and semiotic bodies -- The semiotic mind in action -- Materiality of digital brains -- Publishing fmri visuals -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461601303321 |
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Alač Morana
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Handling digital brains : a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers / / Morana Alač
| Handling digital brains : a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers / / Morana Alač |
| Autore | Alač Morana |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/2 |
| Collana | Inside technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Human-computer interaction
Semiotics Neuroscientists Brain mapping Brain - Magnetic resonance imaging |
| Soggetto non controllato | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| ISBN |
1-283-11907-2
9786613119070 0-262-29547-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | In the fMRI laboratory -- fMRI brain visuals as fields for interaction -- fMRI brain imaging and the experience of sound -- fMRI brain visuals and semiotic bodies -- The semiotic mind in action -- Materiality of digital brains -- Publishing fmri visuals -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789572203321 |
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Alač Morana
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Handling digital brains : a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers / / Morana Alač
| Handling digital brains : a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers / / Morana Alač |
| Autore | Alač Morana |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/2 |
| Collana | Inside technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Human-computer interaction
Semiotics Neuroscientists Brain mapping Brain - Magnetic resonance imaging |
| Soggetto non controllato | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| ISBN |
1-283-11907-2
9786613119070 0-262-29547-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | In the fMRI laboratory -- fMRI brain visuals as fields for interaction -- fMRI brain imaging and the experience of sound -- fMRI brain visuals and semiotic bodies -- The semiotic mind in action -- Materiality of digital brains -- Publishing fmri visuals -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813609703321 |
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Alač Morana
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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