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028			_aTechnical Bureau Private Limited _b;E-261,Shastri Nagar,Delhi-110052 _c;TB27 _d;03/06/2020
082			_a128.2 KOC
100			_aChristof Koch
245			_aThe feeling of life itself _b: why consciousness is widespread but can't be computed _c/Christof Koch
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts _b: MIT Press _c, 2019
300			_axviii, 257 pages _c; 24 cm
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505			_a Preface : consciousness redux -- What is consciousness? -- Who is conscious? -- Animal consciousness -- Consciousness and the rest -- Consciousness and the brain -- Tracking the footprints of consciousness -- Why we need a theory of consciousness -- Of wholes -- Tools to measure consciousness -- The uber-mind and pure consciousness -- Does consciousness have a function? -- Consciousness and computationalism -- Why computers can't experience -- Is consciousness everywhere? -- Coda : why this matters -- References -- Notes.
520			_aIn The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted--the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception. Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain, three pounds of highly excitable matter, a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same laws of physics as any other piece, give rise to subjective experience? Koch argues that what is needed to answer these questions is a quantitative theory that starts with experience and proceeds to the brain. In The Feeling of Life Itself, Koch outlines such a theory, based on integrated information. 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
650			_aArtificial intelligence
655			_aConsciousness.
700			_aChristof Koch
942			_cBOOK