Description
What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry
that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in detail. One function of this circuitry is to attribute awareness to others: to compute that person Y is aware of thing X. In Graziano's theory, the machinery that attributes awareness to others also
attributes it to oneself. Damage that machinery and you disrupt your own awareness. Graziano discusses the science, the evidence, the philosophy, and the surprising implications of this new theory. Now in an affordable paperback edition!
Author: Michael Graziano
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/14/2015
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780190263195
ISBN10: 0190263199
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Psychology | Neuropsychology
that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in detail. One function of this circuitry is to attribute awareness to others: to compute that person Y is aware of thing X. In Graziano's theory, the machinery that attributes awareness to others also
attributes it to oneself. Damage that machinery and you disrupt your own awareness. Graziano discusses the science, the evidence, the philosophy, and the surprising implications of this new theory. Now in an affordable paperback edition!
Author: Michael Graziano
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/14/2015
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780190263195
ISBN10: 0190263199
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Psychology | Neuropsychology
About the Author
Michael S. A. Graziano, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Princeton University, is an internationally renowned scientist and an award-winning novelist. His books include the popular science title God, Soul, Mind, Brain and the short novels The Divine Farce, The Love Song of Monkey, and Death My Own Way.