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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (2012)

Tekijä: Christof Koch

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"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 1990s and 2000s 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.… (lisätietoja)
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Neuroscience of correlates of consciousness from one of the rock stars of the field Koch. ( )
  yates9 | Feb 28, 2024 |
A somewhat trippy book about the history of neuroscience and what science can tell us about consciousness. I have no idea if Koch's tentative theories have any basis in reality, but they're certainly fascinating. ( )
  raschneid | Dec 19, 2023 |
I liked the book overall, although I didn't quite understand some of the points he was arguing about Consciousness (esp. a large part of chapter 8). But overall very readable and chapter 7 was one of the best discussions of free will that I've seen. ( )
  steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
This book is just under 200 pages but it is packed full of information and thought-provoking pages. Koch, a neuroscientist takes you on the journey of discovering what consciousness could be, Koch seems very aware of the disputes between scientists, philosophers, and theologians on this important topic.

I really enjoyed reading it and was surprised it was so accessible, don't be afraid of the title, you will be able to follow this even if you are googling "romantic reductionist" right now. ( )
1 ääni TonyLeeRossJr. | Feb 26, 2019 |
I just couldn't stay engaged.? Even though this is a newer book, it doesn't really seem to be breaking news to me... more personal philosophy, and lots of cultural (both classical and pop) allusions.?á And too ivory-tower, too... show-off vocabulary, that kind of thing.

I do appreciate that I learned that Einstein's original phrasing was Der Alte wurfel nicht" which translates as The Old Man, not God, does not play dice.?á Now, without knowing how universally German speakers refer to the Christian God as The Old Man, we can't know if the distinction is relevant... but it's interesting to guess that there's a possibility that Einstein was not actually referring to that Caucasian bearded overseer of the Christian church...."
  Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 5, 2016 |
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Koch weaves a vivid and poignant story, punctuated by fascinating characters and compelling science. The book will leave you with a small piece of Koch's own consciousness, plucked from his head and delivered into yours.
 
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"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 1990s and 2000s 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.

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