How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe (New Scientist Instant Expert) by New Scientist

Author:New Scientist
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2017-03-09T05:00:00+00:00

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Consciousness

There are a lot of hard problems in the world, but only one of them gets to call itself “the hard problem”. That is the problem of consciousness – how a kilogram or so of nerve cells conjures up the seamless kaleidoscope of sensations, thoughts, memories and emotions that occupy every waking moment.

The intractability of this problem prompted British psychologist Stuart Sutherland’s notorious 1989 observation: “Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon…Nothing worth reading has been written on it.”

The hard problem remains unsolved. Yet neuroscientists have still made incredible progress understanding consciousness, from the reasons it exists to the problems we have when it doesn’t work properly.

Is consciousness still fascinating? Yes. Elusive? Absolutely. But Sutherland’s final point no longer stands. Read on…

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