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Consciousness : confessions of a romantic reductionist

by Christof Koch

This study explores the neurobiology of consciousness and how physical brain activity generates subjective experience. Combining scientific overview with personal memoir, it traces the field's evolution through new research techniques and brain-imaging technologies.

Accession 8550 ISBN — Publisher MIT Press
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