The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness [Paperback]

The problem of consciousness sits at the heart of neuroscience, and it is into this question that Yale computer-science professor David Gelernter steps with his fascinatingSometimes it takes an expert to recognize when expertise is not enough&Gelernter employs not algorithms but introspection, personal reflection, and an engagement with a broad range of literary sources.Dazzling.Fascinating&Gelernter marshals evidence from psychological and scientific research as well as the works of Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, J.M. Coetzee and many others to advance a new paradigm for the study of human consciousness. Its an astonishingly ambitious book, beautifully written and ultimately persuasive. The arch-genius&has some radical ideas about the supremacy of the human mind&[Gelernter] is a computer virtuoso who happens to find human consciousness even more entrancing than the most amazing digital apparatus.