{"product_id":"you-are-not-your-brain-stephen-hawley-martin-9798295735967","title":"You Are Not Your Brain: Why AI Can't Be Conscious and What That Means for Life After Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than three centuries, science has assumed that consciousness is produced by the brain-that our thoughts, awareness, and identity arise from neural activity. In this book, award-winning author Stephen Hawley Martin challenges that assumption and presents a compelling alternative: that consciousness may be fundamental to reality itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins with a striking medical case in which a patient, clinically dead, later reported accurate observations of events that occurred while doctors were attempting to revive her-details that were independently verified. Such cases, once dismissed, now form part of a growing body of evidence that raises a difficult question for neuroscience: how can conscious awareness occur when the brain is not functioning?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom there, Martin explores the \"Hard Problem of Consciousness,\" the limits of current neuroscience, and the distinction between intelligence and awareness-an issue central to today's debate over artificial intelligence. He argues that while AI can process information with increasing sophistication, there is no known mechanism by which computation produces subjective experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on research in neuroscience, physics, and human consciousness studies, the book builds toward a far-reaching conclusion: the brain may not create consciousness but instead receive or filter it. If so, the implications are profound-not only for understanding AI, but for the nature of identity, reality, and the possibility that consciousness does not end with the death of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Hawley Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295735967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oaklea Press Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d","brand":"Stephen Hawley Martin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623683731711,"sku":"9798295735967","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/you-are-not-your-brain-stephen-hawley-martin-9798295735967","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}