Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness by Philip Goff was originally published in 2019.
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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It's becoming clearer that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first.
cool..thanks for the clear tour of the basic ideas of this book..
I went in the opposite direction; theologian to materialist.
Thanks for the review. Last book I've read about the topic was "Consciousness Explained" by D. Dennett. One question is why we need self-awareness at all? We could be all so called philosophical zombies and just function fine? 🙂
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