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The book distinguishes consciousness and awareness from intelligence, fluent language, attention, and self-monitoring. It introduces major theories—including Global Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, Recurrent Processing, and Higher-Order Thought—and explains what each suggests about studying consciousness.
Readers are guided through evidence from areas such as sleep, anesthesia, brain imaging, and lesion studies, then introduced to the challenges of drawing careful comparisons with animals and artificial systems. The book discusses possible research approaches, including testing how changes to a system’s architecture affect its performance, while explaining why human-like language alone is not evidence of subjective experience.
It also considers the ethical risks of wrongly attributing—or overlooking—consciousness and the need for transparent research and oversight. This book is for readers interested in AI, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and how future evidence might shape debates about artificial awareness.
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