The Survival of Consciousness : Penrose, Chalmers, Goff and the Question of Life Beyond Matter
Language: English
Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Jun 2026, 2026
Series: Book 2 of 13 - BEYOND LIMITS Consciousness, Mind and Reality
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- Title
- The Survival of Consciousness : Penrose, Chalmers, Goff and the Question of Life Beyond Matter
- Author
- Giulia de Ponti
- Publisher
- Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Jun 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
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- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798180049087
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- 159 grams
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- Series
- Book 2 of 13: BEYOND LIMITS Consciousness, Mind and Reality
What if consciousness is not just a product of the brain?
What if subjective experience cannot be fully explained by computation, function, or matter alone?
In The Survival of Consciousness, Giulia De Ponti explores one of the deepest unresolved questions in contemporary thought: what is consciousness, and can it really be reduced to physical processes?
Through a careful and rigorous analysis of Roger Penrose, David Chalmers, and Philip Goff, this book brings together three of the most influential voices in the modern debate on mind, matter, and reality. Although they come from different disciplines, they converge on a disturbing possibility: current materialist and computational explanations may not be enough.
This book examines:
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the hard problem of consciousness
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the limits of computational theories of mind
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Orch OR and quantum approaches to consciousness
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panpsychism and the combination problem
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the relationship between mind, matter, and explanation
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the possibility that consciousness may point beyond conventional materialism
At the center of the book lies a difficult but unavoidable question: if consciousness cannot be reduced to computation or brain function, what does that imply about personal identity, reality, and survival?
Giulia De Ponti does not offer dogma or easy certainty. Instead, she builds a disciplined philosophical investigation that respects the achievements of modern science while refusing premature closure. The result is a book for readers who want serious thought, not slogans.
If you are interested in philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, neuroscience, AI, metaphysics, quantum theory, and the future of explanation itself, this book offers a demanding but accessible exploration of one of the defining intellectual problems of our time.
Can consciousness be explained without reducing it to matter?
If not, what else may be missing from our picture of reality?
Giulia De Ponti writes from a perspective that remains rare in contemporary discourse: she combines conceptual rigor, lucid expression, and a remarkable ability to connect philosophy, science, and the deepest existential questions. In her earlier work, she has already explored themes related to consciousness, mind, inner life, and the limits of scientific explanation, developing a voice that is both recognizable and intellectually coherent.
THE SURVIVAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS is part of a broader series of essays devoted to consciousness beyond materialist reductionism: an editorial project that gathers complementary yet self-contained volumes, designed to offer readers a wide-ranging, critical, and progressive view of the contemporary debate. Each book examines a different dimension of the same vast question: what consciousness truly is, what relationship it has to the brain, and whether subjective experience may point to something more fundamental than matter itself.
Through her books, Giulia De Ponti is building a unified catalog that explores consciousness from complementary angles, weaving together neuroscience, philosophy of mind, theoretical physics, and questions about the meaning of human experience.
These books confront the great questions that never stop drawing readers in:
WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
CAN THE MIND BE FULLY REDUCED TO THE BRAIN?
IS SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE JUST A BY-PRODUCT OF MATTER — OR SOMETHING MORE FUNDAMENTAL?
CAN COMPUTATION EXPLAIN AWARENESS?
AND WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DOES THIS MEAN FOR PERSONAL IDENTITY, SURVIVAL, AND REALITY ITSELF?
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