Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781860940309)

Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it explains what they are and what they do, in such a way that anyone may understand.This book is also a story. A story of a land where people think that they are automata without much in the way of consciousness, a story of cormorants and cliffs by the sea, a story of what it might be like to be a conscious machine...

Author: Igor Aleksander
ISBN-10: 1860940307
ISBN-13: 9781860940309
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/1996
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.82h x 6.23w x 1.02d