Description: Rethinking ConsciousnessA Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience Author(s): Michael S A Graziano Format: Paperback Publisher: WW Norton & Co, United States Imprint: WW Norton & Co ISBN-13: 9780393541342, 978-0393541342 Synopsis Tracing evolution over millions of years, Michael Graziano shows how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention: taking in messages from the environment, prioritising them and responding as necessary. Then covert attention evolved?a roving, mental focus separate from where the senses are pointed. To monitor and control covert attention, Graziano posits in his attention schema theory, 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. That self model gives us our intuitions about consciousness and makes us empathetic social beings as we attribute it to others. The theory implies that uploading the data structure of consciousness into machines will be possible and he discusses what artificial consciousness will mean for our evolutionary future.
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Book Title: Rethinking Consciousness
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Rethinking Consciousness: a Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
Language: English
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Item Height: 211 mm
Subject: Biology
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Study Guide
Item Weight: 180 g
Subject Area: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Psychology, Biological Psychology
Author: Michael S a Graziano
Item Width: 140 mm
Format: Paperback
