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, and The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach.
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Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception. Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain, three pou... SEE MORE