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Title: Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness
Author: PARKS TIM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 06/08/2019
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
Can computers be conscious?
Is our universe real of a simulation?
Is the mind a unique quality of human beings?
As technological breakthroughs in AI continue to advance, topics like this have become part of the daily news cycle. But what does it all mean and what is at stake for the human race?
When Tim Parks came across a radical new theory of consciousness he set off on a quest to discover more about this fascinating topic and also let him to observe his own experience with immense attention.
Out of My Head tells the gripping, highly personal, often surprisingly funny, story of a paradigm shift. It frames complex metaphysical considerations and technical laboratory experiments in terms we can all understand. Above all, it invites us to see space, time, colour and smell, sounds and sensations in an entirely new way. The world will feel more real after reading it.
ISBN: 9781784705985
Pages: 352