Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the BrainHarper Collins, 15 nov 2011 - 313 pagina's “Big questions are Gazzaniga’s stock in trade.” “Gazzaniga is one of the most brilliant experimental neuroscientists in the world.” “Gazzaniga stands as a giant among neuroscientists, for both the quality of his research and his ability to communicate it to a general public with infectious enthusiasm.” The author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the “father of cognitive neuroscience.” In his remarkable book, Who’s in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly determined by physical processes we cannot control. His well-reasoned case against the idea that we live in a “determined” world is fascinating and liberating, solidifying his place among the likes of Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio, V.S. Ramachandran, and other bestselling science authors exploring the mysteries of the human brain. |
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... cognition and beliefs of all kinds , and the possession of a belief trumps all the automatic biological process and hardware , honed by evolution , that got us to this place . Possession of a belief , though a false one , drove Othello ...
... cognition . We seem to have a lot of complexity in our makeup . Our very own brain machine runs on its own steam , even though we think we are in charge . Now that is a puzzle . Our brains are a vastly parallel and distributed system ...
... cognitive change over time, but also the influence of the external world. It turns out not to be simple at all: Oftentimes detaching the framework of fact from the theorizing is a long and arduous process with many detours, and such was ...
... cognitive changes. That early inventive brain had to first solve the predator problem, the origin of the phrase “necessity is the mother of invention.” Of the two ways to outfox a predator, one is to be bigger and faster—an unworkable ...
... cognitive capacity are the result of brain reorganization , not changes in size alone.30 He writes , " I came to this conclusion before 1964 when I made a seminar presentation [ .... ] demonstrating that some human microcephalics with ...
Inhoudsopgave
Chapter Two The Parallel and Distributed Brain | |
Chapter Three The Interpreter | |
Chapter Four Abandoning the Concept of Free Will | |
Chapter Five The Social Mind | |
Chapter Six We Are the | |
Chapter Seven An Afterword | |
Index | |
Also by Michael S Gazzaniga | |
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