Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide to the Great Debates over Consciousness, Free Will, and the Relationship Between Mind and Body, Including the Hard Problem and the Zombie Argument
About this audiobook
The greatest unsolved mystery in the universe isn't in outer space. It is inside your head.
You wake up. You feel the warmth of the sun. You decide to get out of bed. But how exactly does a three-pound lump of grey tissue create the vivid, immediate, and subjective experience of being you?
For centuries, the greatest thinkers have grappled with the mind-body problem. Is your consciousness a physical reality, a spiritual entity, or an elaborate illusion? Are your choices truly your own, or were they predetermined by the laws of physics since the dawn of time? And as artificial intelligence grows increasingly sophisticated, what happens when machines claim to be self-aware?
In Philosophy of Mind, Alex Omberg delivers a captivating, accessible beginner's guide to the deepest questions of human existence. Stripping away the academic jargon, this book takes you on a mind-bending journey from Descartes's seventeenth-century stove-heated room to the cutting-edge frontiers of modern neuroscience and AI.
Inside this thought-provoking guide, you will discover:
The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Why science can map the entire brain, yet still cannot explain why physical processes feel like anything at all.
The Zombie Argument: A terrifyingly logical thought experiment that challenges everything we know about the physical world.
The Illusion of Free Will vs. Determinism: Are you really the author of your actions, or is "choice" just a biological reflex?
Mind-Bending Thought Experiments: Explore John Searle's Chinese Room, Thomas Nagel's bat, and the philosophical puzzles that stump the world's smartest scientists.
The Threat (and Promise) of Artificial Intelligence: Can a computer ever truly think? Discover the philosophical implications of machine consciousness and the Turing Test.
The Extended Mind Thesis: Why your smartphone might literally be a functioning part of your brain.
Whether you are a student of philosophy, a tech-enthusiast fascinated by AI, or simply a curious thinker wanting to understand yourself better, this book provides the ultimate roadmap to the theories that define human nature.
The mystery at the centre of everything is waiting to be explored.
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