EAN: 9783031240140

THE CONSCIOUSNESS REVOLUTIONS - SHIMON EDELMAN ...

This book is about all things consciousness  great and small. It starts by pointing to the key
characteristic of consciousness  without realizing which it cannot be understood: like
everything else about the mind  it is fundamentally a kind of computation. Among many other
matters  this explains: how it is that we share some aspects of consciousness with bacteria 
how it can arise in artificial machines and not just living ones  how the empty cocoon of the
self that it spins ends up pretending to be the butterfly  and how consciousness dooms this
virtual butterfly to the splendor and the suffering of being awake and aware. Unlike most other
books on consciousness  this one includes a discussion of some possible ways whereby we  pinned
like butterflies by our species' history and socioeconomic circumstances  can awake to our
collective predicament and join forces to do something about it. It should be of interest to
all readers who care about the nature of our lived experience - andabout our survival  which
depends on developing critical consciousness of our dire situation and the social dynamics that
shape it.

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