The User Illusion
Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Recommended by Stephen Baker, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #34 in Consciousness, Ranked #53 in Illusion
As John Casti wrote, "Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness." This groundbreaking work by Denmark's leading science writer draws on psychology, evolutionary biology, information theory, and other disciplines to argue its revolutionary point: that consciousness represents only an infinitesimal fraction of our ability to process information. Although we are unaware of it, our brains sift through and discard billions of pieces of data in order to allow us to understand the world around us. In fact, most of what we call thought is actually the unconscious discarding of... more
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Stephen Baker It’s about how our minds and our memories work and the tiny bit of bandwidth through which information can go into our brains. (Source)
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