PHI. Un viaggio dal cervello all'anima

The idea behind this book is wonderfully original; Francis Crick, Alan Turing, and Charles Darwin take Galileo on a trip to view a wide range of metaphorical scenarios. Each scenario explores a different aspect of the brain, or of consciousness. This approach is reminiscent of Dante's Inferno , but w Leggi tutto

I continue my voyage into the different theories of consciousness. This was quite a pleasant part. Guile Tononi is a neuroscientist and the founder of the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness (IIT), the one of the most advanced modern hypotheses about the nature of it. But this book is muc Leggi tutto

Phi, die goldene Zahl, Zahl des Lebens, ganz banal Φ, etwa ~1.618033988749895 ist schon eine erstaunliche Zahl. Sie findet sich in der Geometrie von Kristallen, Blüten und Gehäusen, im Verhältnis weiblicher zu männlichen Bienen, in Körpermaßen, in Tönen und Harmonien, in den Spiralen von Galaxien, u Leggi tutto

Oh, for heaven's sake. I wanted to like this a lot more than I did, reviews compared it to Gödel, Escher, Bach (which I have to admit I have owned for about 20 years, and never made it past page 17 because it gets way too hard) and Sophie's World , in that it takes an academic discipline -- neural sc Leggi tutto

This ranks as the oddest neuroscience book I've ever read, and yet for me it was often beautiful and quite compelling. Giulio Tononi specializes in work on neuroscience and the mystery of consciousness -- how we gain a sense of self and an awareness of all our mental experiences adding up to an "I." Leggi tutto

There's a lot here that is interesting, but the biggest problem with this book is that I cannot figure out who it is written for. It's basically a thought experiment, highly allegorical, with many obscure literary, historical, and philosophical allusions. Therein lies the problem. It's far too fanci Leggi tutto

Phi is an extremely ambitious book which sets out to explain the nature and implications of consciousness. It's beautifully put together, incorporating numerous images from classical painting and sculpture and contemporary scientific imaging. The images are interspersed with a text which is consciou Leggi tutto

اسم الكتاب :فاي : رحله من الدماغ الي الروح (نظريه عصبيه في تفسير الوعي) الكاتب : جوليو تونوني ترجمه : احمد عمرو شريف التقييم :4/5 الوعي...... اكتر كلمه تخليك تلف حوالين نفسك وتخلي عقلك شبه الزومبي ويا تخليك تحب تكمل بسبب الغموض الممتع يا اما تكرهها بسبب التعقيد الصعب. انا اسفه ان البوست هيبقا طويل عن غي Leggi tutto

Frequentareil campo delle neuroscienze è interessante perché è una terra di frontiera. Su quel confine della conoscenza, l'umanesimo, cioè quel che l'uomo ha tentato lentamente, nei millenni, di comprendere di sé, della sua mente e del suo corpo, si incontra con quel che sta scoprendo negli ultimi d Leggi tutto

This is a psychedelic experience in book form, written as a parable employing many well-known historical figures and archetypes, rich in kaleidoscopic metaphor and multilayered analogy. Integrated Information Theory, the main concept the book puts forth, is highly controversial, and dismissed as pseu Leggi tutto