Top Results for Consciousness

The Passion According to G.H. is a novel by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, published in 1964. The narrative consists of a single extended monologue delivered by a sculptor identified only as G.H., who recounts an existential crisis triggered by her encounter with a cockroach in a maid's room. T...

Michael Gazzaniga is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for research on people whose cerebral hemispheres were surgically disconnected to treat severe epilepsy. Working in the split-brain research tradition established with Roger Sperry, he helped show how the hemispheres can process informa...

Stanislas Dehaene is a French cognitive neuroscientist whose research examines how neural activity supports reading, numerical cognition, learning, and conscious awareness. He is associated with the neuronal global workspace model, which proposes that information becomes consciously accessible when...

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It alternates between two first-person narratives: a futuristic Tokyo story involving processed data and a mysterious System, and a walled settlement where the protagonist is separated from his shadow...

Antonio Damasio is a Portuguese American neuroscientist whose research examines emotion, decision-making, consciousness, and the neural basis of the self. His somatic marker hypothesis proposes that bodily signals associated with emotion help guide choices, especially under uncertainty. Drawing part...

Peter Watts’ *Blindsight* presents a challenging exploration of first contact through the lens of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The novel investigates whether conventional notions of consciousness are necessary for intelligent behavior when encountering an alien species exhibiting seemin...

*A Dream Play* is a 1901 theatrical work by Swedish playwright August Strindberg that experiments with the logical structure of dreams. The narrative follows Indra's Daughter, a divine figure who descends to Earth to observe and experience the realities of human existence. Strindberg intentionally a...

Paul Stamets' work explores the complex, unseen networks within a forestthe mycorrhizal fungi, the root systems, and the underground communication. It teaches readers that the forest operates as a single, intelligent superorganism. It is a beautiful, detailed look at biological communication, inspir...

'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge' is the only novel written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke, published in 1910. Structured as a fictional diary, it chronicles the experiences of a young Danish aristocrat and aspiring poet living in Paris. The narrative deeply explores existent...

'Dream Story' is a novella by the Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler, originally published in 1926 under the title 'Traumnovelle'. The narrative follows Fridolin, a successful doctor, and his wife Albertine as they navigate the psychological fallout of confessing their secret desires to one another....

Christof Koch is a German-American neuroscientist whose research focuses on the neural basis of consciousness. He collaborated extensively with Francis Crick on identifying neural correlates of consciousness and later became a prominent advocate of integrated information theory. Koch served as presi...

Chris Frith is a British neuropsychologist known for using cognitive experiments and neuroimaging to study schizophrenia, social cognition, and conscious action. His research has examined how people distinguish self-generated actions from external events, a process called the sense of agency, and ho...

V. S. Ramachandran is an Indian-born neuroscientist known for research in behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics at the University of California, San Diego. He studied phantom limbs, body representation, synesthesia, and neurological conditions using relatively simple experimental methods. He...

Bernard Baars is a cognitive scientist best known for developing Global Workspace Theory as a model of consciousness. The theory proposes that many specialized processes operate outside awareness, while selected information becomes conscious when it is made globally available to multiple cognitive s...

Pincher Martin is a 1956 philosophical novel by British author William Golding that explores themes of survival, isolation, and the human condition. The narrative centers on Christopher Hadley "Pincher" Martin, a British naval officer who is thrown into the Atlantic Ocean after his ship is torpedoed...

The Master and His Emissary is a 2009 nonfiction book by British psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist. It examines differences between the brain's two hemispheres and argues that each supports distinct ways of attending to and interpreting the world. McGilchrist then connects this model to changes in Weste...

Thomas the Obscure is a philosophical novel by the French author Maurice Blanchot, originally published in 1941 and later revised in 1950. The narrative centers on a character named Thomas and explores themes of language, literature, and the impossibility of experiencing one's own death. Blanchot ut...

Novel by Italian author Alberto Moravia, published in 1960, using a painter's obsessive and ultimately futile pursuit of a young model to explore existential alienation and the impossibility of authentic feeling.

Ned Block is an American philosopher of mind and cognitive science, born in 1942, who serves as a professor at New York University. He is best known for introducing the analytical distinction between phenomenal consciousness, which relates to subjective sensory experience, and access consciousness,...

Children of Memory is a 2022 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky that concludes his Children of Time trilogy. The story focuses on the fragile human colony of Kern’s World and introduces a society of sentient corvids whose lives are complicated by their fragmented memory and reliance on exte...

Echopraxia is a 2014 hard science fiction novel by Canadian author Peter Watts, published by Tor Books. It is a companion or sequel to his 2006 novel Blindsight, set in the same near-future universe. The novel follows a group of characters—including a biologist, a military officer, and members of a...

Nicholas Humphrey is a British theoretical psychologist and philosopher born in 1943, widely recognized for his contributions to the study of consciousness. He is best known for proposing the social intelligence theory, which posits that human consciousness and higher cognitive functions evolved pri...