Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist

Embark on a wild ride through the neuroscience of consciousness in this compelling study that “[sheds] light on how scientists really think”—hailed as “science writing at its best” (Times Higher Education).

A scientist searches for an empirical explanation for consciousness, spurred by his instinctual belief that life is meaningful . . .

What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, su...