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Consciousness and the Brain

Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

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Consciousness and the Brain

Written by: Stanislas Dehaene
Narrated by: David Drummond
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How does the brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining, testing, and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state. We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions. The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals, babies, and those with severe brain injuries.A joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities, Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone who is interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness.

©2014 Stanislas Dehaene (P)2014 Tantor Biological Sciences Neuroscience & Neuropsychology Physical Illness & Disease Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science
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Good work with conclusions and inferences based on scientific experiments. Experiments are described in fair details and lead to insights and trigger more thoughts.

Although the definition of consciousness has been constrained to align with the limitations of objective probing.

It definitely gives an intuition about what consciousness is and what its signatures could be but struggles in creating an intuition about what is responsible for that attention, awareness, observation, etc. that generates those signature of consciousness.

Insightful

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