![]() ![]() Now, the technology is still a long, long way off-but it’s just barely possible that someone alive today will get to experience it. For one thing, it finally makes clear what must happen in order to download our mind onto hardware. ![]() It turns out that the explanation has some extraordinary implications. How can knowing how consciousness works help our lives? Science has finally cracked the code, and in our book, we guide you through the astonishing explanation of consciousness, step by step.īut what matters even more than the details of how physical activity in your brain gets converted into the intangible banquet of awareness is what this explanation can do for us. How can the physical activity of tiny, gooey cells in our cranium produce our wondrous experience of joy, and pain, and recognizing our friends, and understanding the meaning of the words that you are reading or listening to right now?Ĭonsciousness has baffled scientists and scholars for centuries-but no longer. Our experience of experience itself has long been the greatest mystery in the mind sciences. Listen to the audio version-read by Ogi and Sai themselves-in the Next Big Idea App. He coauthored A Billion Wicked Thoughts.īelow, Ogi and Sai share 5 key insights from their new book, Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos. Sai Gaddam, PhD, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Adaptive Systems at Boston University. He coauthored Dark Horse, The End of Average, and Shrinks, which was longlisted for the PEN/E. Ogi Ogas, PhD, was a Department of Homeland Security Fellow at the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University and a research fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. ![]()
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