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The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach

About the AuthorBorn in 1956 in the American Midwest, Christof Koch grew up in Holland, Germany, Canada, and Morocco, where he graduated from the Lycee Descartes in 1974. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Tubingen in Germany and was awarded his Ph.D. in biophysics in 1982. He is now the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology at the California Institute of Technology. The author of several books, Dr. Koch studies the biophysics of computation, and the neuronal basis of visual perception, attention, and consciousness. Together with Francis Crick, his long-time collaborator, he has pioneered the scientific study of consciousness.

Subject
sciencepsychologyphilosophy
Themes
philosophymedical
Audience
adult
Length
long · 429 pages

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