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In this fascinating discussion of one of the hardest problems in all of science \\u2014 the hard problem of consciousness, that is, explaining how the feeling or experience of something can arise from neural activity \\u2014 one of the world\\u2019s leading neuroscientists Christof Koch argues that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack. Consciousness is experience. Consciousness is, as his book title states, The Feeling of Life Itself \\u2014 the feeling of being alive. Shermer and Koch discuss:
Christof Koch is President and Chief Scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, following twenty-seven years as a Professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (MIT Press), The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, and other books.
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