From Neurons to Self-consciousness: How the Brain Generates the Mind
- ISBN-10
- 1616142278
- ISBN-13
- 9781616142278
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 193
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Author
- Bernard Korzeniewski
Description
What is consciousness? This book constructs a novel theory about how consciousness gradually emerged in the course of evolution from the single neuron in certain species of sea anemone to the complex neural network of the human brain.
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