The Quest for Consciousness
by Koch Christof · first published 2004
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You should read "The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach," by Caltech professor Christof Koch, which is a book about this subject.
on “Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from?” ↗…know what to tell you. My personal sense is that AIs of the type we have now have no qualia but I am prepared to entertain the idea that they might. If you want a good text about this try Koch's the Quest for Consciousness. Despite your certainty about qualia and its relation to science, there are genuine observational things we can say about it and how it relates to the physical structure of brains/minds. On the subject…
on “Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive” ↗"A slew of books over the past two decades have proffered solutions to the ‘problem’ of consciousness. Among the best known are Christof Koch’s The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach (2004); Giulio Tononi and Gerald Edelman’s A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination (2000); Antonio Damasio’s The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion…
on “I feel therefore I am” ↗