![]() ![]() I thought that was a really interesting and apt analogy. He states that neuroscience is at a stage right now similar to how physics was, say, four hundred years ago. Something I loved from the beginning of this book is House’s enthusiasm for and wonder about consciousness. ![]() He tries to apply elements of the chapter’s theory or lens for viewing consciousness to the study to see what we might learn. In all of these chapters, House relates these ideas back to a single study, published in Nature, in which electric current applied to a teenage girl’s brain during surgery stimulated laughter. Basically, each chapter is a different way of explaining or examining consciousness. Some of them are a little out there, a little difficult for me to conceptualize let alone express. ![]() I’m not going to attempt to summarize the nineteen ways. ![]() However, I didn’t have as much fun reading this book. As he admits in the introduction, he doesn’t have all the answers-none of us do-but he has a lot of fun mulling over some of the theories that are out there. Consciousness, sentience, intelligence-how did these traits evolve? How do they even work? Patrick House explores Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness (literally what it says on the tin) and tries to address these questions. Philosophy of the mind has always been one of my favourite realms of philosophy. ![]()
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