Hakwan Lau - In Consciousness We Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience

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To the truth-loving people of Hong Kong

First, I have to thank those who have taught me the most about the subject. They are my current and former students and mentees, including Brian Mansicalco, Dobromir Rahnev, Ai Koizumi, Liyan McCurdy, Yoshiaki Ko, Jorge Morale, Guillermo Solovey, Megan Peters, Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel, Brian Odegaard, Aurelio Cortese, JD Knotts, Kiyo Miyoshi, Taylor Webb, Yujia Peng, Cody Cushing, Mouslim Cherkaoui, Raihyung Lee, Cathie So, Ben Rosenberg, and Seong Hah Cho. Youll read about some of their excellent work throughout the book.

Like Angela Clague, Matthias Michel was kind enough to read the drafts of all the chapters in this book, well before they were readable. As usual, his comments have improved the content substantially.

Of course, I also have teachers in a more formal sense. It was Chad Hansen at the University of Hong Kong, my alma mater, who first got me interested in philosophy and academia. Joe Lau at the same institution taught me how to read and write properly and planted the important seed of doubt that abstruse writing is typically anything but profound. At Oxford, Dick Passingham miraculously created a scientist out of an unruly young man.

From there, the line between mentors and friends gets blurry: Chris Frith, Joe LeDoux, Patrick Haggard, David Rosenthal, and Mitsuo Kawato taught me how to be less unwise as an academic (and as a person in general). At UCLA, Michelle Craske kindly supported my foray into clinical studies. Michele Basso and Alicia Izquierdo likewise allowed me to learn about animal models, as a late beginner.

Outside of my own affiliated institutions, Steve Fleming and Richard Brown are both good friends as well as collaborators.