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Updated · openPR · Jul 17
Byron Bernal Releases New Consciousness Book on Amazon, Linking Brain Science to AI
Updated
Updated · openPR · Jul 17

Byron Bernal Releases New Consciousness Book on Amazon, Linking Brain Science to AI

1 articles · Updated · openPR · Jul 17

Summary

  • Awareness and Consciousness: A Journey from Biology to Artificial Intelligence is now available on Amazon, marking neurologist Byron Bernal’s latest book release.
  • The book argues consciousness emerges from the brain’s information-processing architecture, using neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics and AI to examine how awareness develops into subjective experience.
  • Clinical cases involving brain lesions, split-brain patients and hemi-inattention underpin that framework, reflecting Bernal’s more than 20 years of work in neurology and functional MRI.
  • Bernal, a Florida International University professor trained in Colombia, positions the book for neuroscientists, students and general readers interested in whether animals or artificial intelligence could become conscious.

Insights

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