内容简介
意识是什么？它如何产生，又为何而存在？
我们对自己身处世界的体验已经习以为常，但意识的存在本身其实提出了深刻的问题：为什么宇宙中的某一团物质会拥有意识？我们要怎么思考这个问题？我们为什么要思考这个问题？
在这本通俗易懂的书中，安娜卡·哈里斯带领我们了解意识不断发展的定义、对它的哲学讨论和相关的科学发现，探讨我们对意识的有限理解。我们要想理解意识，就必须知道如何去定义它，以及在当前的人工智能时代背景下，谁或者什么能够拥有它。
作者简介
安娜卡·哈里斯（Annaka Harris），美国科普作家，专注于神经科学和物理学。她是儿童读物《我想知道》（I Wonder）的作者，并与苏珊·凯瑟·葛凌兰（Susan Kaiser Greenland）合作出版了《正念游戏活动卡》（Mindful Games Activity Cards）。她也是“内在小孩”（Inner Kids）组织的一名志愿正念老师，以及非营利科学教育集团Project Reason的联合创始人。其丈夫是大名鼎鼎的哲学家、神经科学家山姆·哈里斯（Sam Harris）。
Content introduction
What is consciousness? How and why does it exist?
We take our experience of being in the world for granted, but the very existence of consciousness actually raises profound questions: Why does a lump of matter in the universe have consciousness? How do we think about this? Why are we thinking about this?
In this accessible book, Anaka Harris guides us through the evolving definition of consciousness, philosophical discussions of it, and related scientific discoveries that explore our limited understanding of consciousness. To understand consciousness, we must know how to define it, and who or what can possess it in the current era of artificial intelligence.
About the author
Annaka Harris is an American science writer specializing in neuroscience and physics. She is the author of the children's book "I Wonder" and, with Susan Kaiser Greenland, "Mindful Games Activity Cards." She is also a volunteer mindfulness teacher with Inner Kids and co-founder of Project Reason, a nonprofit science education group. Her husband is the famous philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris.
