Over the last 25 years, that 3lb lump our heads generates every experience we have ever had has come into much sharper focus, largely through incredible developments in brain science, and through the works of many great writers and thinkers. Here are some books that I recommend you to read on Neuroscience of Consciousness.
HERE IS THE LIST OF BOOKS ON THE NEUROSCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
1) The Mechanization of the Mind by Jean Pierre Dupuy
This was originally published in 1987. The conceptual history of cognitive science remains for the most part unwritten. In this groundbreaking book, Jean-Pierre Dupuy one of the principal architects of cognitive science in France provides an important chapter, the legacy of cybernetics. Contrary to popular belief, Dupuy argues, cybernetics represented not the anthropomorphization of the machine but the mechanization of the human. The founding fathers of cybernetics some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, including John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Walter Pitts-intended to construct a materialist and mechanistic science of mental behavior that would make it possible at last to resolve the ancient philosophical problem of mind and matter. The importance of cybernetics to cognitive science, Dupuy argues, lies not in its daring conception of the human mind in terms of the functioning of a machine but in the way the strengths and weaknesses of the cybernetics approach can illuminate controversies that rage today between cognitivists and connectionists, eliminative materialists and Wittgensteinians, functionalists and anti-reductionists. This book will blow your mind while reading.
This Author wrote some of the most spectacular books of all time like-'The Remains of the Day' and 'Never Let Me Go'. He won Nobel Price in Literature. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
This brutally honest memoir provides a rather special perspective on the nature of “other minds”, in this case that of a successful lawyer living with schizophrenia. Saks has struggled with schizophrenia for most of her life, from her early teenage years when she heard voices urging her to harm herself and others to the full-blown psychotic episodes and suicidal fantasies that she continued to battle as a law professor. Schizophrenia certainly changes one’s conscious experience of the world and this is a fascinating and moving account of what it’s like to live in that alternate universe.
This book was launched recently. Koch describes how the theory explains many facts about the neurology of consciousness and how it has been used to build a clinically useful consciousness meter. The theory predicts that many, and perhaps all, animals experience the sights and sounds of life; consciousness is much more widespread than conventionally assumed. Contrary to received wisdom, however, Koch argues that programmable computers will not have consciousness. Even a perfect software model of the brain is not conscious. Its simulation is fake consciousness. Consciousness is not a special type of computation it is not a clever hack. Consciousness is about being.! You should read this book.
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding the brain and the future of AI. For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence! Just think about it for sec, you will be blank but, Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map like structures to build a model of the world-not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high level thought.
This book was published recently and just 256 pages long but long enough to blow your mind!!,Ever since Homo sapiens has walked the earth, natural selection has favored perception that hides the truth and guides us toward useful action, shaping our senses to keep us alive and reproducing. We observe a speeding car and do not walk in front of it; we see mold growing on bread and do not eat it. These impressions, though, are not objective reality. Just like a file icon on a desktop screen is a useful symbol rather than a genuine representation of what a computer file looks like, the objects we see every day are merely icons, allowing us to navigate the world safely and with ease. The real-world implications for this discovery are huge. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.;
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review
8) Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World by Chris Frith
Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of information from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Our current theories about conscious life-of people, animal, even robots are transformed by the new perspectives found in this book.
Illusions, rubber hands, mirror neurons, self-tickling … what more could you want in a book that explains how your brain gives rise to your whole sense of being something in the world? This is a book about how our brains build models based on prediction that generate our experience of the physical world around us. Highly accessible, witty and erudite, this book is the best of its kind.
