"If you wonder where the sounds and sights in the skull-sized infinite kingdom that is your mind come from, who else has these feelings and whether computers can ever be conscious, this is the book for you." - Christof Koch Summary An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack. ...(展开全部)

克里斯托夫·科赫，德裔美国神经科学家，他在美国加州理工学院担任了27年的教授，目前是美国西雅图艾伦脑科学研究所的总裁兼首席科学家。科勒长期从事计算生物物理以及视觉和意识的神经基础研究，并与DNA双螺旋结构发现者之一弗朗西斯·克里克共同开拓了对意识的科学研究。克里克去世后，科勒继续从事意识和大脑领域的研究和探索。相继出版了《对意识的探索——神经生物学方法》《意识：一个浪漫还原论者的自白》等著作。

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life s hares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solu...(展开全部)

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life s hares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solu...(展开全部)

A leading expert of the neurophysiology of emotions, Damasio shows how our consciousness arose out of the development of emotion. At its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling and experiencing self.

A leading expert of the neurophysiology of emotions, Damasio shows how our consciousness arose out of the development of emotion. At its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling and experiencing self.

Widely praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio achieves a new understanding of consciousness by asking-and answering-profound questions: How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage, a great sci...(展开全部)

Widely praised for his innovative scientific thinking and elegant writing, Antonio Damasio achieves a new understanding of consciousness by asking-and answering-profound questions: How is it that we know what we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? A gifted medical clinician with decades of caring for patients with brain damage, a great sci...(展开全部)