• 展开的大脑
  • The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are One
  • 作者:Riccardo Manzotti
  • 出版社代理人:OR Books(美国)
  • 出版时间:2017年11月
  • 页数:304页
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内容介绍
*本书作者被形容为“one of the most original and provocative thinkers in consciousness studies”(Brain, Mind and Physics作者Paavo Pylkannen)
 
人类开始进化而不需要只担心饮食、性爱以及庇护的时候,我们开始思考一些最基本的问题:我们是谁?我们是什么东西?人类是身体还是灵魂?如果我们只是被装入一个身体的大脑,我们是如何跟外面的世界交流?
 
脑神经学家已经非常完整地研究出人类大脑以及它如何跟我们的身体交流的方式,但他们仍然不太能够掌握人类最基本的一部分:我们的自我。在现在的科学文学里,我们比较在乎处理资讯,而不是在乎人类的灵魂。没有人可以告诉我们意识到底是存在在那里?是我们的大脑里?身体里?身体的哪里?
 
在这本书中,作者解释了他为何相信我们的身体里并没有任何主观的经验。但是,意识是一个真实的东西,更是一个实体的东西。作者非常激进的理论是意识就是我们所在的实体世界。他利用爱因斯坦的相对论理论、关于梦以及幻觉的研究结果、感知光的几何学以及真实案例来证明他的理论:意识不是“我们大脑里的一场电影”,而是我们生活在的实体世界。
 
关于作者:
Riccardo Manzotti是米兰大学的心理学教授。他拥有机器人博士学位,写过超过50张科学研究文章。他曾是美国MIT的Fulbright Visiting Scholar。他是International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Magazine的资深编辑。The New York Review of Books花了好几个月刊登了作者以及小说家Tim Parks之间讨论关于意识的对话:http://www.nybooks.com/topics/on-consciousness/
 
好评:
The Spread Mind presents a game-changing idea, one that when recognized will take Riccardo Manzotti right to the top. . .It is difficult, when considering work so conceptually revolutionary as Riccardo Manzotti’s, to know whether one is looking at the real thing or an aberration. After long reflection, I am convinced it is the real thing.”— Tim Parks, author, In Extremis and Europa
 
“This book is only for those who can step aside to question their own worldview. The Spread Mind questions radically the currently prevailing concepts by some scientists and many science writers about consciousness. It makes me dizzy in a wonderfully precise way.”— Johannes Goebel, founding director of Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 
“Despite decades of work, our best philosophical minds cannot explain how the brain, or matter, produce consciousness. It’s time to examine other options, and Manzotti’s The Spread Mind is among the very few works to do so. In locating experience outside the body, he opens the way for entirely new approaches to the mind.”— David Skrbina, author of Panpsychism in the West