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The Feeling of Life Itself, Paperback / softback Book

The Feeling of Life Itself Paperback / softback

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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 conscious perception.

Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind.

But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain, three pounds of highly excitable matter, a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same laws of physics as any other piece, give rise to subjective experience?

Koch argues that what is needed to answer these questions is a quantitative theory that starts with experience and proceeds to the brain.

In The Feeling of Life Itself, Koch outlines such a theory, based on integrated information.

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