{"product_id":"beyond-immortality-giulia-de-ponti-9798189141812","title":"Beyond Immortality: Why Consciousness Is More Than Information, Computation, and Neural Activity The Revolutionary Discoveries of Penrose, Tononi, Koc","description":"\u003cb\u003eWHEN THE BRAIN STOPS......DOES CONSCIOUSNESS TRULY DISAPPEAR?\u003cbr\u003eDiscover where science really stands in 2026.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan neuroscience explain subjective experience-or only describe its neural correlates?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAre consciousness, personal identity, and memory really the same thing?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd what if the most honest scientific answer is still: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ewe don't know\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, the public has been forced to choose between two extremes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn one side, pop-fiction books claiming that quantum physics has already proved life after death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the other, a rigid reductionism insisting that consciousness has already been completely explained by neural activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeparate established evidence from speculation, popular myths from scientific research, and explore one of humanity's greatest unanswered questions through an evidence-based investigation grounded in \u003cb\u003eneuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, psychology, biology, physics, and consciousness research\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon the work of \u003cb\u003eRoger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Antonio Damasio, Karl Friston, Anil Seth, Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch, Stanislas Dehaene, David Chalmers, Daniel Kahneman, Thomas Metzinger, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Joseph LeDoux, Jaak Panksepp, Eric Kandel, Michael Gazzaniga, V.S. Ramachandran, Donald Hoffman, Robert Sapolsky, Steven Pinker, Galen Strawson, Philip Goff, Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Endel Tulving, Gerald Edelman\u003c\/b\u003e, and many of the world's leading researchers, \u003cb\u003eBEYOND IMMORTALITY\u003c\/b\u003e offers an intellectually rigorous and remarkably accessible journey into the science of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than promoting sensational claims or comforting certainties, this book carefully distinguishes \u003cb\u003ewhat current scientific evidence supports, what remains controversial, and what is still genuinely unknown.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiulia De Ponti\u003c\/b\u003e brings together decades of research across multiple disciplines with \u003cb\u003eintellectual honesty\u003c\/b\u003e, analytical rigor, and exceptional clarity. 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