Consciousness and Science Fiction

• Main Author: Broderick, Damien (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Physics.; Neurosciences.; Artificial intelligence.; Philosophy.; Popular Science in Physics.; Artificial Intelligence.; Popular Science in Philosophy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

Science fiction explores the wonderful, baffling and wildly entertaining aspects of a universe unimaginably old and vast, and with a future even more immense. It reaches into that endless cosmos with the tools of rational investigation and storytelling. At the core of both science and science fictio...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The Machine in the Ghost
• The Language of the Mind
• What Is It Like to Be a Consciuos SF Writer?
• The First Century-Plus
• The Second Golden Age
• Entering the Mainstream
• Radically Different Minds
• L'Être et le néant
• Minds on Fire
• Transcending
• Waking up Different. .