Name: Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness (en Inglés)
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Author: Humphrey, Nicholas
ISBN: 9780262047944

portada Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Nicholas Humphrey

Editorial

MIT Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.0 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9780262047944

Categorías

Estudios cognitivos
Neurociencias
Filosofía de la mente

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness (en Inglés)

Nicholas Humphrey (Autor) · MIT Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness (en Inglés)"

The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's leading theoretical psychologists. We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, Nicholas Humphrey describes in Sentience his quest for answers: from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his pioneering work on social intelligence to breakthroughs in the philosophy of mind. The goal is to solve the hard problem: to explain the wondrous, eerie fact of "phenomenal consciousness"--the redness of a poppy, the sweetness of honey, the pain of a bee sting. What does this magical dimension of experience amount to? What is it for? And why has it evolved? Humphrey presents here his new solution. He proposes that phenomenal consciousness, far from being primitive, is a relatively late and sophisticated evolutionary development. The implications for the existence of sentience in nonhuman animals are startling and provocative.