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November 8, 2019

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Three New Books on Human Consciousness to Blow Your Mind

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In his new book, “The Feeling of Life Itself,” Koch advocates for integrated information theory, or IIT, developed by Giulio Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. IIT doesn’t ask how matter gives rise to consciousness — rather, it takes as a given certain attributes of consciousness, and asks what kinds of physical systems would be needed to support them.

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