Consciousness and Science Fiction

Name: Consciousness and Science Fiction
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Damien Broderick
ISBN: 9781799915638

Author: Damien Broderick

Series: Science and Fiction Series #1

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/05/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Physics

Synopsis

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 fiction is the engaged human mind—a consciousness that sees and feels and thinks and loves. But what is this mind, this aware and self-aware consciousness that seems unlike anything else we experience? What makes consciousness the hard problem of philosophy, still unsolved after millennia of probing? This audiobook looks into the heart of this mystery—at the science and philosophy of consciousness and at many inspiring fictional examples—and finds strange, challenging answers.This audiobook’s content and entertaining style will appeal equally to science fiction enthusiasts and scholars, including cognitive and neuroscientists, as well as philosophers of mind. It is a refreshing romp through the science and science fiction of consciousness.

About Damien Broderick

Damien Broderick, PhD, is an award-winning science fiction and science writer, editor, and critic who has published more than seventy books. He has received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. A former senior fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and founding science fiction editor of Cosmos magazine, he now lives in Texas.

About Raphael Corkhill

Raphael Corkhill grew up in central London and attended the renowned Eton College before moving to the United States to attend Princeton University, after which he completed his MFA acting degree at the University of Southern California. Raphael’s recent credits include the Los Angeles Theatre Center’s production of Short Eyes, A Happy End at the Museum of Tolerance, and Luke Eberl’s latest film, The Movie. Raphael’s voice-over work includes the Weinstein Company’s upcoming feature Lawless and the award-winning short film Wrecks and Violins.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stuart on February 10, 2016

Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010: Interesting choices, but reviews inept Originally published at Fantasy Literature Even since high school I’ve used David Pringle’s Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels, 1949-1984 (1985), Modern Fantasy: 100 Best Novels, 1946-1987 (1988), and The Ultimate Gu......more

Goodreads review by Liviu on July 23, 2014

While I discussed the list of titles (as it made its way online as a meme) in a FBC post here: [URL not allowed] and I even offered some other suggestions in another post here: [URL not allowed], I finally got a copy of the book itself and a little to my sur......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on August 03, 2014

This isn't exactly filled with sparkling deathless prose, and if you're expecting something definitive or unassailable, I think you're a bit batty. If you think you're going to agree with every choice, I think you're more than a bit batty. It's basically a list with some commentary, comprising of a......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on January 28, 2015

Any authors who dare to compile a list of ‘best’ SF novels do so at their peril. If there is anything more divisive to SF fans than what constitutes the genre itself, then it is what novels or authors are most representative of that genre. (For a genre supposedly based on inclusivity and universalis......more

Goodreads review by Andreas on March 11, 2020

Vivid readers always welcome new recommendations. If you just need a raw list then you can go to Worlds without End and look up the different awards or compiled lists. Personally I enjoy it when someone writes a paragraph or two why a book has been selected and this is what Damien Broderick does. I......more