Brain Science currently employs about 300 scientists, engineers, technologists and supporting personnel. The first eight years of this ten-year endeavor to build brain observatories were funded by a donation more than $500 million by Microsoft founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen. Koch is a proponent of the idea of consciousness emerging out of complex nervous networks. In 2014, he published a short discussion work, In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental property of complex things, where he introduced the concept that consciousness is a fundamental property of networked entities, and therefore cannot be derived from anything else, since it is a simple substance. Personal life Koch is a vegetarian, a bicyclist, and an experienced rock climber. Books Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From Ions to Networks, The MIT Press, (1998), Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons, Oxford Press, (1999), The Quest for Consciousness: a Neurobiological Approach, Roberts and Co., (2004), Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, The MIT Press, (2012), The Feeling of Life Itself - Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can't be Computed, The MIT Press, (2019), Selected publications References External links 1956 births Living people American cognitive neuroscientists American consciousness researchers and theorists California Institute of Technology faculty American people of German descent Panpsychism People from Kansas City, Missouri Max Planck Society alumni University of Tübingen alumni 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American physicists Scientific American people