Mind-brain identity theory

Here, one of today's most brilliant theoreticians puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking which can never be emulated by a computer. The reader is led on a dazzling tour through the underlying maths and physics of his ideas.

'Self Comes to Mind' explores two questions that have haunted philosophers, neurologists, cognitive scientists and psychologists for centuries: how do brains construct minds, and how do minds become conscious? In this work, Antonio Damasio debunks the long-standing idea that consciousness is some...