
Out of Our Heads
You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
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Narrated by:
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Jay Snyder
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By:
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Alva Noe
In this inventive work, Noë suggests that rather than being something that happens inside us, consciousness is something we do. Debunking an outmoded philosophy that holds the scientific study of consciousness captive, Out of Our Heads is a fresh attempt at understanding our minds and how we interact with the world around us.
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"[A]n invaluable contribution to cognitive science and the branch of self-reflective philosophy extending back to Descartes' famous maxim, 'I think, therefore I am.'" ( Booklist)
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Out of our heads
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Where does Out of Our Heads rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I think this book is great. So far into the book, I’ve not heard anywhere specifically where Alva has blatantly set up a strawman fallacy or acting with an aggressive gusto toward the skepticism of neuroscience’s answers to the underlying basis of consciousness. His argument is from a cause within scientific discourse, regarding a material origin and basis of consciousness assumed or sought for, often, which we have no evidence for other than neural correlations of consciousness. But correlations are not causations, as everyone knows.Who was your favorite character and why?
There is an overall cost for science to understand what has been truly defined as the ineffable, phenomenal consciousness. Alva Noe argues with clarity that this process can by no means be exclusively limited to just our brains, when we consider all the parameters within conscious experience. He gives interesting information about research conducted. I would definitely recommend this book; I am enjoying it and think the critical individuals scolding Alva for questioning "established science" as one hoffing reviewer put it, should consider their place within the underlying ideological battle of consciousness as “arising” from the brain.Any additional comments?
I wonder if the individuals who read this blog and are henceforth perpetually vexed at the author’s comments are taking offense of his old attempts to address and challenge the scientific claim that we can understand the origins, causation, or basis of consciousness? To those of you who say it’s just “a few” who think this way, please think again. Many neuroscientists have written their theories with a neural basis of consciousness within their hypothesis, many times often assumed. For example, neuroscientists and philosophers are wide-ranging and some are militant atheists such as Daniel Dennett, and the rest are assuming or seeking consciousness as having a material, neural basis and origin unproven, Peter Tse, Christoph Koch, Crick, and Victor Lamme. They are by no means alone. Richard Dawkins is a supporter because he is also a militant atheist materialist seeking with an ideological agenda to "supplant" all other modes of knowledge, especially religious modes. A lot of misinformation exists out there.Alva is worth listening to to make you reconsider what you think of when you think of consciousness.Not driven by dogmatism, rightly placed skepticism
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All that said, I gave this book 4 stars and mildly recommend it. Much of the content is devoted to fascinating and well-crafted accounts of a variety of brain phenomena and research, and those I thoroughly enjoyed.
A bold, yet ultimately unsupported, hypothesis
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Interesting concept...
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Great topic
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Oversimplified Pontificating
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garbage
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This seemed as though it could have been such an interesting book but, alas, the author basically has nothing. Narration is pretty good, although the reader's tone does seem to accentuate the somewhat arrogant rhetorical style of the author.
Analytically fatuous; Synthetically vacuous
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