Michael S. A. Graziano

Neuroscientist and psychologist Michael S. A. Graziano puts forward a groundbreaking new theory on the origin of consciousness.

A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience

Rethinking Consciousness

Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all: what is consciousness? Linking consciousness with social intelligence, Graziano discusses the science, the philosophy, and the implications.

Consciousness and the Social Brain

Three strangers are condemned to live together in darkness, crushed together in a concrete stall so small that they can never sit down. Liquid food drips down from above. Waste drains through a grid on the floor. So begins one of the strangest, most surreal comments on the human experience, on love and hatred and the human ability to find good in any situation, no matter how difficult. Michael S. A. Graziano delights in the macabre and surreal, yet it is his optimism that lifts this little novel. Like The Love Song of Monkey, this book is deeply thought provoking, horrifying, and funny.

The Divine Farce

Lisa M. Graziano

Police chief Sharon Earles probes into the mystery behind the explosion of a gravitation vault at a physics lab, particularly the disappearance of four people working there and the discovery of half a corpse still inside it.

Cretaceous Dawn

The love song of monkey

"In a surreal exile on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, a young man faces his own death and his wife's infidelity as he travels through the most important landscape of all - the inner landscape of the soul. Graziano stirs the reader to laugh, ache, mourn, and hope by turns in this emotionally tumultuous yet ultimately calming tale. At the book's heart is a meditation on the simple, inexplicable, and lasting power of love, cast in the metaphor of a journey - to the depths of the ocean floor and along the ledges of skyscrapers."--BOOK JACKET.

A Novel

The Love Song of Monkey

Science and (not versus) religion: a neuroscientific account of how the brain’s social machinery creates consciousness, soul, spiritualism, and God.

A Neuroscientist's Reflections on the Spirit World

God Soul Mind Brain

What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in detail. One function of this circuitry is to attribute awareness to others: to compute that person Y is aware of thing X. In Graziano's theory, the machinery that attributes awareness to others also attributes it to oneself. Damage that machinery and you disrupt your own awareness. Graziano discusses the science, the evidence, the philosophy, and the surprising implications of this new theory.

L. M. Graziano

A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled 65 million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs, and paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have only one chance for rescue. Meanwhile in the lab, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of why half a body remains where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong but can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people and do they want to?

Michael S. A. Graziano

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