Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

Humphrey, Nicholas

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-02
  • 售價: $1,090
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 256
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262548313
  • ISBN-13: 9780262548311

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The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from a leading theoretical psychologist.

We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, Nicholas Humphrey describes in Sentience his quest for answers: from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his pioneering work on social intelligence to breakthroughs in the philosophy of mind.

The goal is to solve the hard problem: to explain the wondrous, eerie fact of "phenomenal consciousness"--the redness of a poppy, the sweetness of honey, the pain of a bee sting. What does this magical dimension of experience amount to? What is it for? And why has it evolved? Humphrey presents here his new solution. He proposes that phenomenal consciousness, far from being primitive, is a relatively late and sophisticated evolutionary development. The implications for the existence of sentience in nonhuman animals are startling and provocative.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一位領先的理論心理學家講述了一個尋求揭示意識演化歷史的故事。

我們感受，所以我們存在。意識的感覺是我們自我的基礎。它們對我們作為心靈存在的概念至關重要：現在的、存在的，並且有重要性。但這種感覺只有人類有嗎？其他動物有嗎？未來的機器會有嗎？將智慧冒險和尖端科學結合在一起，尼古拉斯·漢弗萊在《感知》中描述了他尋求答案的旅程：從他在猴子身上發現的盲視和他在社交智能方面的開創性工作，到在心靈哲學方面的突破。

目標是解決困難的問題：解釋“現象意識”的奇妙而詭異的事實——罌粟的紅色，蜂蜜的甜味，蜜蜂蜇的疼痛。這種神奇的體驗維度意味著什麼？它的目的是什麼？為什麼它會演化出來？漢弗萊在這裡提出了他的新解決方案。他提議，現象意識絕非原始，而是相對較晚和複雜的演化發展。對於非人類動物是否具有感知能力的存在，這些結果令人震驚並引人深思。

作者簡介

Nicholas Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the London School of Economics, is a theoretical psychologist based in Cambridge, who studies the evolution of intelligence and consciousness. He was the first to demonstrate the existence of "blindsight" in monkeys. He has also studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda, proposed the celebrated theory of the "social function of intellect," and investigated the evolutionary background of religion, art, healing, death-awareness and suicide. His honors include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the Pufendorf Medal, and the International Mind and Brain Prize. His most recent books are Seeing Red and Soul Dust.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

尼古拉斯·漢弗萊（Nicholas Humphrey）是倫敦政治經濟學院的心理學名譽教授，是一位位於劍橋的理論心理學家，研究智慧和意識的演化。他是第一個在猴子身上證明「盲視」存在的人。他還與戴安·福西（Dian Fossey）一起在盧旺達研究山地大猩猩，提出了「智力的社會功能」的著名理論，並研究了宗教、藝術、療癒、死亡意識和自殺的演化背景。他獲得的榮譽包括馬丁·路德·金紀念獎、普芬多夫獎章和國際心智與腦獎。他最近的著作有《Seeing Red》和《Soul Dust》。

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