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- Book Title
- NeuroScience Fiction : How Neuroscience Is Transforming Sci-Fi into Reality-While Challenging Our Belie Fs about the Mind, Machines, and What Makes Us Human
- Publication Name
- NeuroScience Fiction
- Title
- NeuroScience Fiction
- Subtitle
- How Neuroscience Is Transforming Sci-Fi into Reality-While Challe
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1950665054
- EAN
- 9781950665051
- ISBN
- 9781950665051
- Publisher
- BenBella Books
- Genre
- Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Release Date
- 28/04/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit some of the philosophical questions we have been asking ourselves for centuries. Science fiction often takes its inspiration from the latest science . . . and our oldest questions. After all, the two are inextricably linked. At a time when advances in artificial intelligence are genuinely leading us closer to a computer that thinks like a human, we can't help but wonder: What makes a person a person? Countless writers and filmmakers have created futuristic scenarios to explore this issue and others like it. But these scenarios may not be so futuristic after all. In the movie Inception, a group of conspirators implants false memories; in Until the End of the World, a mad scientist is able to read dreams; in 2001: A Space Odyssey, a supercomputer feels and thinks like a person. And in recent years, the achievements described in leading scientific journals have included some that might sound familiar: implanting memories using optogenetics, reading the mind during sleep thanks to advanced decoding algorithms, and creating a computer that uses deep neural networks to surpass the abilities of human thought. In NeuroScience Fiction , neuroscientist and author Rodrigo Quiroga reveals the futuristic present we are living in, showing how the far-out premises of 10 seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by discoveries happening right now, on the cutting edge of neuroscience. He also explores the thorny philosophical problems raised as a result, diving into Minority Report and free will, The Matrix and the illusion of reality, Blade Runner and android emotion, and more. A heady mix of science fiction, neuroscience, and philosophy, NeuroScience Fiction takes us from Vanilla Sky to neural research labs, and from Planet of the Apes to what makes us human. This is a book you'll be thinking about long after the last page-and once you've read it, you'll never watch a sci-fi blockbuster the same way again. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of The Forgetting Machine, returns with a book exploring how modern neuroscience is turning iconic science-fiction concepts into reality-and why these developments should prompt us to revisit centuries-old philosophical questions.
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Publisher
BenBella Books
ISBN-10
1950665054
ISBN-13
9781950665051
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038664541
Product Key Features
Book Title
NeuroScience Fiction : How Neuroscience Is Transforming Sci-Fi into Reality-While Challenging Our Belie Fs about the Mind, Machines, and What Makes Us Human
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.S26q5313
Reviews
"If you like science fiction, this book is for you, but if you like science and fiction, then this is certainly your book. Intelligent and well informed." --Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, and author of Descartes' Error and The Strange Order of Things. "Rodrigo Quian Quiroga has written a thorough, provocative answer to the deep philosophical question of what makes us human. His truly remarkable book blends art, science, and philosophy as seen through the highly original lens of brain research and movies." --Gustavo Deco, ICREA professor, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Theoretical and Computational Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona "Renowned cognitive neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga invites us on an exhilarating journey, in which the motley trio of neuroscience, philosophy, and Hollywood together seek after the recipe of the mind. Quian Quiroga, who himself discovered what is sure to be an essential ingredient, the concept cells, shows us how frighteningly close we are getting and how huge the stakes are." --Doris Y. Tsao, neuroscientist and professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology "This book is a fascinating journey across some of the most influential science-fiction movies that deal with the deepest questions in neuroscience and philosophy of mind." --Jose M. Carmena, professor of electrical engineering and neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley " NeuroScience Fiction will be a treat for sci-fi movie fans and anyone who has wondered just how close we are to the horizon technologies--which is often much closer than we realize." --James H. Fallon, professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, and bestselling author of The Psychopath Inside
Table of Content
Contents Introduction 1 2001: A Space Odyssey: Machine Intelligence 2 Blade Runner: Can Androids Feel? 3 Planet of the Apes: Animal Consciousness 4 The Matrix: The Illusion of Reality 5 Until the End of the World: Reading the Mind 6 Minority Report: Free Will 7 RoboCop: Cyborgs and Identity 8 Inception: Dream Construction 9 Total Recall: Memory Manipulation and Implantation 10 Open Your Eyes (Vanilla Sky): Immortality Epilogue: The Dawn of a New Philosophy Notes Acknowledgments About the Author Index
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