意识科学
惊人的假说 豆瓣
The Astonishing Hypothesis : The Scientific Search for the Soul
6.9 (7 个评分)
作者:
(英)弗朗西斯·克里克
译者:
汪云九
湖南科学技术出版社
2004
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40年前弗朗西斯·克里克与詹姆斯·沃森一道,发现DNA结构,改变了我们对生命本质的理解,从面名垂青史。现在,克里克又一次站在科学的前沿,把他的注意力转到对人类意识奥秘的探索上来。克里克决定要揭示脑的复杂性,他选择了视觉的神经生物学研究作为突破口。他对大脑究竟怎样“看”东西作出的科学分析,内容翔实,妙语横生,令人信服。他还大胆探索人类存在的一些最基本问题:我们有自由意志吗?什么使我们成为区别于其他动物且具有感知能力的生物?灵魂真的存在吗?抑或我们只不过是一堆神经元的复杂集合吗?在这本具有开拓性和争议的著作中,弗朗西斯·克里克向近代科学、哲学和宗教思想的根本基础提出挑战。
The Character of Consciousness 豆瓣
作者:
David J. Chalmers
Oxford University Press
2010
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What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of consciousness, Chalmers builds a positive framework for the science of consciousness and a nonreductive vision of the metaphysics of consciousness. He replies to many critics of The Conscious Mind, and then develops a positive theory in new directions. The book includes original accounts of how we think and know about consciousness, of the unity of consciousness, and of how consciousness relates to the external world. Along the way, Chalmers develops many provocative ideas: the "consciousness meter", the Garden of Eden as a model of perceptual experience, and The Matrix as a guide to the deepest philosophical problems about consciousness and the external world. This book will be required reading for anyone interested in the problems of mind, brain, consciousness, and reality.