NeuroScience Fiction: From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Inception, How Neuroscience Is Transforming Sci-Fi into Reality-While Challenging Our Beliefs About the Mind, Machines, and What M By Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

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What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit some of the philosophical questions we have been asking ourselves for centuries. Science fiction often takes its inspiration from the latest science . . . and our oldest questions. After all, the two are inextricably linked. At a time when advances in artificial intelligence are genuinely leading us closer to a computer that thinks like a human, we can't help but wonder: What makes a person a person? Countless writers and filmmakers have created futuristic scenarios to explore this issue and others like it. But these scenarios may not be so futuristic after all. In the movie Inception, a group of conspirators implants false memories; in Until the End of the World, a mad scientist is able to read dreams; in 2001: A Space Odyssey, a supercomputer feels and thinks like a person. And in recent years, the achievements described in leading scientific journals have included some that might sound familiar: implanting memories using optogenetics, reading the mind during sleep thanks to advanced decoding algorithms, and creating a computer that uses deep neural networks to surpass the abilities of human thought. In NeuroScience Fiction, neuroscientist and author Rodrigo Quiroga reveals the futuristic present we are living in, showing how the far-out premises of 10 seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by discoveries happening right now, on the cutting edge of neuroscience. He also explores the thorny philosophical problems raised as a result, diving into Minority Report and free will, The Matrix and the illusion of reality, Blade Runner and android emotion, and more. A heady mix of science fiction, neuroscience, and philosophy, NeuroScience Fiction takes us from Vanilla Sky to neural research labs, and from Planet of the Apes to what makes us human. This is a book you'll be thinking about long after the last page—and once you've read it, you'll never watch a sci-fi blockbuster the same way again.

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Quiroga uses the platform of science fiction to introduce some of the most fascinating recent work in neuroscience and how it connects to long-standing questions in philosophy of mind. It is an ideal introduction and inspirational book for a science-minded high school student or college freshman thinking about a major; but anyone who has not spent a lot of time with this field will learn from it and enjoy it. It is well-written and a straightforward book to read. The English translation is very good - I noticed a handful of oddities but they didn't get in the way.My motive in reading it was a little different: I have studied and done some research in cognitive neuroscience, have read and thought a great deal about philosophy of mind, and have seen most of the movies highlighted. I wanted to see what the author had to say, whether I could gain some incremental insight, and whether I might be able to recommend it to others. I did, and I will. Though ten science-fiction movies are highlighted, that is just the beginning of the literature and film Quiroga discusses, and he has added considerably to my watch-and-read list. The neuroscience work he highlights is a survey of some of the most intriguing results in the past 20-30 years along with its precursors over the past century or more, so there is science history as well. The related coverage of philosophy of mind - consciousness and conscious experience, free will, self/identity, and a little bit of foundations of knowledge - includes most of the usual suspects, especially those popular in the neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence fields (Plato, Descartes, Dennett, etc.).I thought the book was weakest when the author expressed what I saw as unjustified confidence in his philosophical conclusions. Sometimes he positions a statement as his opinion, but not often enough. I contemplated giving the book four instead of five stars on account of this, but decided that it would be pedantry - this shortcoming does not get in the way of its inspirational and overview aims. Still, the account of free will is inconsistent at best (concluding that we have free will because prediction is intractable is a novice error), he sometimes seems to confuse the "hard" and "easy" problems of consciousness, and no, Wittgenstein's and Dennett's arguments do not "prove" that there is an external world, not in a philosophical sense. And in the movie The Matrix, all the humans share the same simulation, so the interaction argument, at least with respect to humans, does not apply.It appears that the author has either not read or dismisses Heidegger, which is typical of physicists, neuroscientists, and AI researchers who dabble in philosophy of mind. It's a shame - it would surely add something to the second edition of this book to include his thought. If mind and brain are two ways of describing the same thing, as the author asserts, then it seems limiting to avoid one (phenomenology) and favor the other. In the words of Richard Feynman, "every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics. He knows that they are all equivalent, and that nobody is ever going to be able to decide which one is right at that level, but he keeps them in his head, hoping that they will give him different ideas for guessing."For most readers, though, these are quibbles. Look at the list of movies, and if you've seen a few and found them intriguing, pick up the book - your horizons will be broadened. And if you know a smart 16-20 year old who's into science fiction, this would be a great gift.

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