Christof Koch

Christof Koch is a German-American neuroscientist and author who is one of the world's leading researchers on the neural basis of consciousness. He is the former President and Chief Scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and has spent decades trying to understand how the physical brain gives rise to subjective experience. The Feeling of Life Itself presents his Integrated Information Theory of consciousness, which proposes a scientific framework for understanding what consciousness is, where it exists and how it can be measured. The book makes cutting-edge neuroscience accessible while grappling with one of the deepest questions in all of science: what is it like to be a conscious being? Available as both a book and an audiobook, The Feeling of Life Itself offers mind-expanding listening and reading for anyone fascinated by consciousness, neuroscience and the ultimate mystery of what it means to be aware.