Then I Am Myself the World - What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

"Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of consciousness is the ability to exert causal power over itself, to be an agent of change. Koch investigates the physical origins of consciousness in the brain and how this knowledge can be used to measure consciousness in natural and artificial systems"--

About the author

Christof Koch is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute and at the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, the former president of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and a former professor at the California Institute of Technology. Author of four previous titles, Koch writes regularly for a range of media, including Scientific American. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. 

Summary

The world's leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness does-cause change in the world-we can understand its origins and its future?

Foreword

The world's leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness does-cause change in the world-we can understand its origins and its future?

Product details

• Authors: Christof Koch
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 99
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2024
• EAN: 9781541602809
• ISBN: 978-1-5416-0280-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology