By Dan Edward Lloyd
ISBN-10: 0262122596
ISBN-13: 9780262122597
ISBN-10: 0262621932
ISBN-13: 9780262621939
ISBN-10: 1417574666
ISBN-13: 9781417574667
Professor Grue is useless (or is he?). while graduate student/sleuth Miranda Sharpe discovers him slumped over his keyboard, she does the practical thing--she grabs her dissertation and runs. Little does she suspect that quickly she's going to be probing the guts of 2 mysteries, attempting to become aware of what occurred to Max Grue, and attempting to resolve the profound neurophilosophical challenge of recognition. Radiant Cool could be the first novel of rules that really breaks new theoretical floor, as Dan Lloyd makes use of a neo-noir (neuro-noir?), hard-boiled framework to suggest a brand new concept of consciousness.In the process her sleuthing, Miranda encounters characters who proportion her urgency to unravel the secret of recognition, even though now not continuously with the main blameless reasons. Who holds the foremost to Max Grue's final imaginative and prescient? Is it the computer-inspired pop psychologist talk-show host? The video-gaming geek with a keenness for man made neural networks? The Russian multi-dimensional info detective, or the subtle neuroscientist with the large e-book agreement? finally Miranda groups up with the author's fictional adjust ego, "Dan Lloyd," and jointly they construct at the phenomenological theories of thinker Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) to build testable hypotheses in regards to the implementation of cognizance within the mind. Will the clues of phenomenology and neuroscience converge in time to ward off a disaster? (The dramatic finishing can't be published here.) outdoors the fictitious global of the unconventional, Dan Lloyd (the writer) appends a long afterword, explaining the proposed concept of realization in additional scholarly form.Radiant Cool is a true metaphysical thriller--based in present philosophy of mind--and a real medical detective story--revealing a brand new interpretation of sensible mind imaging. With its creative plot and its novel thought, Radiant Cool could be loved within the lecture room and the examine for its unique presentation of phenomenology, neural networks, and mind imaging; yet, most significantly, it's going to locate its position as a groundbreaking idea of cognizance.
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I pressed the power key, and just about squeaked when the big fake elevator music chord announced a happy desktop about to rise and shine. The box whirred a bit, the screen flickered to life, the little Mac icon popped up midscreen, but where its happy little face should have been, was only ? Same to you, I thought. This was a dead computer, the nightmare of every grad student. Even someone else’s computer lobotomy panics a person, and you reach for your diskette. ) I laid the CD in the middle of the big pile.
Around the room, the snapping, doodling, and fidgets all end. The play is Alphie’s. Everyone locks on him. And checks out the shortest route to the door. “When I looked away, he moved. If I looked at his foot, his eyes would blink, and if I looked at his face, I could see a toe move. Even when they covered him up, I could see him breathing. ” I think briefly of the stillness of my advisor, in the faint light. ” “Hey, it wasn’t my fault! ” There are events, I realize, that lie like a blanket across time.
Then Miranda the genius detective manages a convincing fake yawn, politely hidden in one hand. It works. The Doc needs the spotlight full on her. “The voicemail he left me last night was very different. A breakthrough, he said. A new theory of consciousness. ” “He’s been talking all semester about the solution. ” “I suppose it would seem so to a graduate student. I would not underestimate him, Miranda. ” Ah, man. Do I detect some love among the subroutines? I offer another teaser. ” “Yes yes, he told me that too,” she says.
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