📚 2 Books mentioned in "What is Consciousness? With Neil deGrasse Tyson & George Mashour" of StarTalk Radio
Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: What is Consciousness? With Neil deGrasse Tyson & George Mashour
Published on January 11, 2024
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Consciousness explained
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So, the fact that the bookshelves are filled with people writing titles like 'Consciousness Explained', for example, doesn't that mean we don't really understand consciousness?
Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions the book 'Consciousness Explained' as an example of how the continued publication of books on a topic may indicate a lack of full understanding of that particular subject. The book is a reference to the broader discussion about the complexity of consciousness.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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In that book, which I think won a Pulitzer Prize, very thick, very fascinating book, in the end, he has a conversation with Einstein's brain.
Chuck mentions a book that is later implied to be 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' by Douglas Hofstadter. The book explores a conversation with Einstein's brain and is used to discuss the potential of modeling consciousness and simulating brain function.