bookmate game
Annaka Harris

Conscious

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
National Bestseller
As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.
What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we?
In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it.
Conscious offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness—allowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can.
This book is currently unavailable
116 printed pages
Publication year
2019
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Impressions

  • Nikolai C.shared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading

Quotes

  • Nikolai C.has quoted4 years ago
    This experiment tells us that light acts differently depending on whether or not it is being measured. Without a measurement, light acts like a wave; and when it is measured, it takes on the characteristics of individual particles.
  • Nikolai C.has quoted4 years ago
    Presentism: Time is in fact flowing and only the present moment is “real”; or
    Eternalism: We live in a “block universe,” where time is more like space—just because you are in one location (or moment) doesn’t mean the others don’t exist simultaneously
  • Nikolai C.has quoted4 years ago
    The term “self” is usually used to describe a more complex set of psychological characteristics—including qualities such as self-confidence or a capacity for empathy—but a “subject” still describes an experience of self in its most basic form.

On the bookshelves

fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)