Consciousness and Science Fiction

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Beschreibung

Science fiction explores the wonderful, baffling and wildly entertaining aspects of a universe unimaginably old and vast, and with a future even more immense. It reaches into that endless cosmos with the tools of rational investigation and storytelling. At the core of both science and science fiction is the engaged human mind--a consciousness that sees and feels and thinks and loves. But what is this mind, this aware and self-aware consciousness that seems unlike anything else we experience? What makes consciousness the Hard Problem of philosophy, still unsolved after millennia of probing? This book looks into the heart of this mystery - at the science and philosophy of consciousness and at many inspiring fictional examples - and finds strange, challenging answers.
The book's content and entertaining style will appeal equally to science fiction enthusiasts and scholars, including cognitive and neuroscientists, as well as philosophers of mind. It is a refreshing romp through the science and science fiction of consciousness.

Über den Autor

Damien Broderick, PhD, is an award-winning science fiction and science writer, editor and critic who has published more than 70 books. He has received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. A former Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and founding science fiction editor of Cosmos magazine, he now lives in Texas.

Zusammenfassung

Looks at imaginative science fiction through the lens of neuroscience

Guides readers to many novels and stories they might not yet have encountered

Traces a path through the maze of philosophical attempts to understand consciousness

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- The Machine in the Ghost.- The Language of the Mind.- What Is It Like to Be a Consciuos SF Writer?.- The First Century-Plus.- The Second Golden Age.- Entering the Mainstream.- Radically Different Minds.- L'Être et le néant.- Minds on Fire.- Transcending.- Waking up Different.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	220
Reihe:	Science and Fiction
Inhalt:	xxii 196 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030005986
ISBN-10:	3030005984
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-030-00598-6
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Broderick, Damien
Auflage:	1st ed. 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Science and Fiction
Maße:	235 x 155 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Damien Broderick
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.12.2018
Gewicht:	0,341 kg

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