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Sto caricando le informazioni... Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience (edizione 2019)di Michael S A Graziano (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaRethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience di Michael S. A. Graziano
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Pretty good book, except the last couple chapters. Most of the book is a brief but good explanation of his theory of consciousness and attention, which I had seen before in a previous book of his, but the explanations here were simplified and easier to understand. But I wasn’t impressed by the last couple chapters — speculation about the possibilities of artificial consciousness and even worse about the possibilities of mind-uploading. These chapters should have been left out of the book. However, don’t skip the appendix! It’s a great brief summary of the way his theory of consciousness and attention (as outlined in the good first 7 chapters) could be used to set up a rudimentary computer prototype of his theory. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Neuroscientist and psychologist Michael S. A. Graziano puts forward a groundbreaking new theory on the origin of consciousness. Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to consciousness. Tracing evolution over millions of years, Graziano uses examples from the natural world to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention: taking in messages from the environment, prioritizing them, and responding as necessary. Then some animals evolved covert attention--a roving mental focus that can take in information apart from where the senses are pointed, like hearing sirens at a distance or recalling a memory. Graziano proposes that in order to monitor and control this specialized attention, the brain evolved a simplified model of it--a cartoonish self-description depicting an internal essence with a capacity for knowledge and experience. In other words, consciousness. In this eye-opening work drawn from his and other scientists' experiments, Graziano accessibly explores how this sense of an inner being led to empathy and formed us into social beings. The theory may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially, and even someday taking the natural consciousness of a person and uploading it into a machine for a digital afterlife. Graziano discusses what a future with artificial conscious might be like, including both advantages and risks, and what AI might mean for our evolutionary future."--Dust jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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