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Ravenous Brain
Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Goghs starry skies be enraptured by Beethovens Fifth and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective personal and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science. In The Ravenous Brain neuroscientist Daniel Bor departs sharply from this historical view and builds on the latest research to propose a new model for how consciousness works. Bor argues that this brain-based faculty evolved as an accelerated knowledge gathering tool. Consciousness is effectively an idea factory - that choice mental space dedicated to innovation a key component of which is the discovery of deep structures within the contents
of our awareness. This model explains our brains ravenous appetite for information - and in particular its constant search for patterns. Why for instance after all our physical needs have been met do we recreationally solve crossword or Sudoku puzzles? Such behavior may appear biologically wasteful but according to Bor this search for structure can yield immense evolutionary benefits - it led our ancestors to discover fire and farming pushed modern society to forge ahead in science and technology and guides each one of us to understand and control the world around us. But the sheer innovative power of human consciousness carries with it the heavy cost of mental fragility. Bor discusses the medical implications of his theory of consciousness and what it means for the origins and treatment
of psychiatric ailments including attention-deficit disorder schizophrenia manic depression and autism. All mental illnesses he argues can be reformulated as disorders of consciousness - a perspective that opens up new avenues of treatment for alleviating mental suffering. A controversial view of consciousness The Ravenous Brain links cognition to creativity in an ingenious solution to one of sciences biggest mysteries.
of our awareness. This model explains our brains ravenous appetite for information - and in particular its constant search for patterns. Why for instance after all our physical needs have been met do we recreationally solve crossword or Sudoku puzzles? Such behavior may appear biologically wasteful but according to Bor this search for structure can yield immense evolutionary benefits - it led our ancestors to discover fire and farming pushed modern society to forge ahead in science and technology and guides each one of us to understand and control the world around us. But the sheer innovative power of human consciousness carries with it the heavy cost of mental fragility. Bor discusses the medical implications of his theory of consciousness and what it means for the origins and treatment
of psychiatric ailments including attention-deficit disorder schizophrenia manic depression and autism. All mental illnesses he argues can be reformulated as disorders of consciousness - a perspective that opens up new avenues of treatment for alleviating mental suffering. A controversial view of consciousness The Ravenous Brain links cognition to creativity in an ingenious solution to one of sciences biggest mysteries.
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