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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... evolution , that got us to this place . Possession of a belief , though a false one , drove Othello to kill his beloved wife , and Sidney Carton to declare , as he voluntarily took his friend's place at the guillotine , that it was a ...
... evolved mental systems were selected to do, settling the question of “self” versus machine becomes a hopeless goal. As the great brain scientist David Marr observed, there is no way to understand how a wing of a bird works by studying ...
... evolutionary neurobiologist at the University of California– Davis, thinks that it is probable that there is a common genetic pattern for the cortex for all species determined by the same genes. She summarizes, “This would explain the ...
... evolve ? Duke University researchers Dale Purves , Beau Lotto , and colleagues point out that successful behavior ... evolutionary past.25 For instance , learning the luminance of a ripe fruit hanging against a background of foliage ...
... evolved a big brain first and that big brain and its big ideas had led to bipedalism . A few years later , in 1980 ... evolution of a big brain . More recently , Tim White and colleagues have made another fascinating discovery . They ...
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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