The Nature of Consciousness
1. Consciousness is a Real, Natural Phenomenon
2. Defining terms: Levels of Consciousness
3. Kinds of Consciousness
4. Emotional Consciousness is the Foundation
5. Clues from Brains
6. Who is Doing the Feeling?
7. Real, Natural Phenomena Are Described by Physics and Math
8. The Consciousness Field and The Senton
9. Where is the Site of Action in the Brain?
10. From Association to Thinking
11. What It is Like to Be a Human
12. Language
13. Brain Structures for Higher Consciousness
14. Attention, Will, Willful Attention, and Attention to Will
15. Self and the Unity of "Me"
16. Destiny
17. Why Consciousness?
18. Artificial Consciousness and Trans-Human Fused Consciousness
19. Conclusions
Appendix I: Reality, Existence, Universes
Appendix II: Brief Summary of Our Universe
Appendix III: Neural Module Architecture
Appendix IV: Thalamocortical Attention Circuit
Appendix V: Concluding Speculations
Appendix VI: Philosophical Note
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The Nature of Consciousness
1. Consciousness is a Real, Natural Phenomenon
2. Defining terms: Levels of Consciousness
3. Kinds of Consciousness
4. Emotional Consciousness is the Foundation
5. Clues from Brains
6. Who is Doing the Feeling?
7. Real, Natural Phenomena Are Described by Physics and Math
8. The Consciousness Field and The Senton
9. Where is the Site of Action in the Brain?
10. From Association to Thinking
11. What It is Like to Be a Human
12. Language
13. Brain Structures for Higher Consciousness
14. Attention, Will, Willful Attention, and Attention to Will
15. Self and the Unity of "Me"
16. Destiny
17. Why Consciousness?
18. Artificial Consciousness and Trans-Human Fused Consciousness
19. Conclusions
Appendix I: Reality, Existence, Universes
Appendix II: Brief Summary of Our Universe
Appendix III: Neural Module Architecture
Appendix IV: Thalamocortical Attention Circuit
Appendix V: Concluding Speculations
Appendix VI: Philosophical Note
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The Nature of Consciousness

by Karl Sipfle
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1. Consciousness is a Real, Natural Phenomenon
2. Defining terms: Levels of Consciousness
3. Kinds of Consciousness
4. Emotional Consciousness is the Foundation
5. Clues from Brains
6. Who is Doing the Feeling?
7. Real, Natural Phenomena Are Described by Physics and Math
8. The Consciousness Field and The Senton
9. Where is the Site of Action in the Brain?
10. From Association to Thinking
11. What It is Like to Be a Human
12. Language
13. Brain Structures for Higher Consciousness
14. Attention, Will, Willful Attention, and Attention to Will
15. Self and the Unity of "Me"
16. Destiny
17. Why Consciousness?
18. Artificial Consciousness and Trans-Human Fused Consciousness
19. Conclusions
Appendix I: Reality, Existence, Universes
Appendix II: Brief Summary of Our Universe
Appendix III: Neural Module Architecture
Appendix IV: Thalamocortical Attention Circuit
Appendix V: Concluding Speculations
Appendix VI: Philosophical Note

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538089071
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 07/07/2018
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Karl Sipfle is an autonomous vehicle systems architect, a manned spacecraft avionics developer, a processor design engineer, a compiler software writer, a parallel algorithm developer, and a Wall Street software engineer.

Karl is a member and former officer of the Triple Nine Society. He is a graduate in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and holds a Certificate of Merit from the Association of Computing Machinery.
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