The Consciousness Revolutions: From Amoeba Awareness to Human Emancipation

by Shimon Edelman

Book Overview

This book is about all things consciousness, great and small. It starts by pointing to the key characteristic of consciousness, without realizing which it cannot be understood: like everything else about the mind, it is fundamentally a kind of computation. Among many other matters, this explains: how it is that we share some aspects of consciousness with bacteria; how it can arise in artificial machines and not just living ones; how the empty cocoon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031240146
• ISBN13: 9783031240140
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 226 Pages