Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness review: Complex and engaging
In this informative book, Patrick House explores interpretations of consciousness through the story of a teenager who laughed during brain surgery when a surgeon artificially stimulated her neural activity
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12 October 2022
Is consciousness a narrative? A simulation? An accidental consequence of evolution? Orla/Shutterstock
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Patrick House (Wildfire)
TRANSLATION is a difficult task. Words mean different things to different people, not only between languages but within them. This is particularly true of difficult concepts in the arts and sciences: terms like altruism and love spur huge debates between people of all backgrounds.
Patrick House, a neuroscientist concerned with the mind, makes clear how far-reaching this issue is in his new book, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness. The …