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 makes us human / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga.
Originally published in Spanish as NeuroCienciaFicción: Cómo el cine se adelantó a la ciencia, in 2018. Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.
Contents:
2001: a space odyssey: machine intelligence -- Blade runner: can androids feel? -- Planet of the apes: animal consciousness -- The matrix: the illusion of reality -- Until the end of the world: reading the mind -- Minority report: free will -- RoboCop: cyborgs and identity -- Inception: dream construction -- Total recall: memory manipulation and implantation -- Open your eyes (Vanilla sky): immortality -- Epilogue: The dawn of a new philosophy.
Summary:
"Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, author of The Forgetting Machine, returns with a book exploring how modern neuroscience is turning iconic science-fiction concepts into reality-and why these developments should prompt us to revisit centuries-old philosophical questions"-- Provided by publisher.
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