The Consciousness Network: How the Brain Creates our Reality - Hardcover

Pennartz, Cyriel

 
9781032552149: The Consciousness Network: How the Brain Creates our Reality
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 103255214X ISBN 13: 9781032552149
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

What is the relationship between consciousness and our brain? Are they one and the same? Who are we really? The Consciousness Network presents a novel account of one of the greatest scientific challenges of the twenty-first century: understanding the connection between brain and mind.

The book explores remarkable cases of patients who demonstrate how our impression of reality is created by the brain. Age-old questions about dreams, colour perception, phantom sensations and hallucinations are illuminated by surprising discoveries from the latest brain research. How does consciousness differ from memory, emotions and behaviour? How did it develop during the evolution of life on earth, and does it serve a purpose? Does the brain leave room for free will? In this unique blend of philosophy, history, psychology and neuroscience, Cyriel Pennartz breaks new ground by presenting an original theory of brain and mind, substantiated by brain research in patients and healthy people. This theory, inspired by the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, goes significantly deeper than current thinking based on computer models or artificial intelligence.

The Consciousness Network is essential reading for students working at the interface of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, as well as anyone interested in consciousness and the brain.

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About the Author

Cyriel Pennartz is Professor in Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research integrates neuroscience, theories and computer models of perception, memory and consciousness, psychology and philosophy.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
103255214X
ISBN 13 
9781032552149
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
306

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