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How do our personalities and mental processes, our "states of consciousness", derive from a gray mass of tissue with the consistency of a soft-boiled egg? How can mere molecules constitute an idea or emotion? Some of the most important questions we can ask are about our own consciousness. Our personalities, our individuality, indeed our whole reason for living, lie in the brain and in the elusive phenomenon of consciousness it generates. Thinkers in many disciplines have long struggled with such questions, often in ways that have seemed incompatible, if not downright contradictory. Philosophers have meditated on the subjective experience of consciousness, with little attention to the physical realm, while scientists have sought to establish a causal relation between brain function and mind, often ignoring the qualitative aspects of experience. In Journey to the Centers of the Mind, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield offers an intriguing, unifying theory of consciousness that encompasses both phenomenological mental events and physical aspects of brain function. Using information gathered from clues in animal behavior, human brain damage, computer science, neurobiology, and philosophy, Greenfield offers a "concentric theory" of consciousness, and shows how certain events in the brain correspond to our qualitative experience of the world. Demonstrating the ways in which we can interpret the experience of consciousness in terms of interactions among neurons, she explores how much we can learn by continuing to find the links between our physical and mental inner worlds.
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Interesting, but hardly applicable outside of academia., 24 Oct 1999
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This review is from: Journey to the Centers of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
While it is unclear to me if this book is applicable to readers whom are not involved in academic research, the book is an interesting documentation of a cognitive researcher's thoughts about the clinical frontier of her research. As such, it provides an excellent, though rather autobiographic, insight into the mind of a brilliant researcher as well as the development of an increasingly important area of research.
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Interesting, but not very deep, 22 Feb 2004
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This review is from: Journey to the Centers of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
This is a book written for the public, in general, but it neither can reach this audience nor the scientific researchers, since it is based on theories that can't be proved in a scientifical way.It's just a book that makes a journey to the world of the mind and tries to bring outside a theory about counsciousness.
I think it fails that purpose... Try to look at Antonio Damasio's books - he really can grasp a way to communicate about what consciousness is, and what's beeing done to study it.
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