The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread But Can't Be Computed

by Christof Koch

Book Overview

A thought-provoking argument that consciousness--more widespread than previously assumed--is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack

In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted--the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262539551
• ISBN13: 9780262539555
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"