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Consciousness and the Social Brain

Michael S. A. Graziano · 3 HN comments
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What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in detail. One function of this circuitry is to attribute awareness to others: to compute that person Y is aware of thing X. In Graziano's theory, the machinery that attributes awareness to others also attributes it to oneself. Damage that machinery and you disrupt your own awareness. Graziano discusses the science, the evidence, the philosophy, and the surprising implications of this new theory.
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The approach I like is:

https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Social-Brain-Michael-Gr...

An article by the same author:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/phlegm-th...

⬐ tpm
I like his approach very much, but I think he is a bit too generous with the artistic license and short on actual research, which is the opposite with Dehaene. I might be wrong of course. But Graziano is perhaps the best writer among current neuroscientists.
Thank you for your list. The books on there look good.

Here's some books that I read & recommend re: applied systems thinking & ecosystems.

http://www.amazon.com/Permaculture-Principles-Pathways-beyon...

http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Forest-Gardens-2-set/dp/1890132...

http://www.amazon.com/One-Straw-Revolution-Introduction-Natu...

http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colum...

http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/03...

http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Succeed-Revi...

http://www.newsociety.com/Books/D/Decline-and-Fall

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...

http://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Social-Brain-Michael-Gra...

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Scratch-Making-Relationship-Rules/...

⬐ selimthegrim
Also wanted to add the invaluable http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Energy-Without-Hot-Air/dp/...
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Michael Graziano's theory that consciousness is computed awareness of attention suggests a far more interesting and perhaps computable solution.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223025/pdf/nihm...

http://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Social-Brain-Michael-Gra...

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