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082			_a153 GRA
100			_aGraziano, Michael S. A
245			_aRethinking Consciousness _b: a scientific theory of subjective experience _c/ Michael S A Graziano
260			_aNew York, _b : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., _c2019
300			_a211 pages : illustrations _c; 25 cm
365			_b2174
505			_aThe elephant in the room -- Crabs and octopuses -- The central intelligence of a frog -- The cerebral cortex and consciousness -- Social consciousness -- Yoda and Darth: how can we find consciousness in the brain? -- The hard problem and other perspectives on consciousness -- Conscious machines -- Uploading minds -- Appendix: How to build visual consciousness.
520			_a"Neuroscientist and psychologist Michael S. A. Graziano puts forward a groundbreaking new theory on the origin of consciousness. Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to consciousness. Tracing evolution over millions of years, Graziano uses examples from the natural world to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention: taking in messages from the environment, prioritizing them, and responding as necessary. Then some animals evolved covert attention--a roving mental focus that can take in information apart from where the senses are pointed, like hearing sirens at a distance or recalling a memory. Graziano proposes that in order to monitor and control this specialized attention, the brain evolved a simplified model of it--a cartoonish self-description depicting an internal essence with a capacity for knowledge and experience. In other words, consciousness. In this eye-opening work drawn from his and other scientists' experiments, Graziano accessibly explores how this sense of an inner being led to empathy and formed us into social beings. The theory may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially, and even someday taking the natural consciousness of a person and uploading it into a machine for a digital afterlife. Graziano discusses what a future with artificial conscious might be like, including both advantages and risks, and what AI might mean for our evolutionary future."--Dust jacket.
650			_aPsychology
650			_aPsychology
650			_aConsciousness.
650			_aExperience -- Psychological aspects.
650			_aErfahrung
650			_aConsciousness
700			_aGraziano, Michael S. A
942			_cBOOK