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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... learned about the nature of the universe . Physical laws govern the happenings in the physical world . We are part of that physical world . Therefore , there are physical laws that govern our behavior and even our conscious self ...
... learned and stored, specific brain areas had used that information in different, particular ways. The question remained, however, how did the networks form? In short, how does the brain develop? The foundational work that became the ...
... learned by what song they were exposed to. He isolated young birds during this sensitive period and exposed them to the songs of either their home dialect or an alien dialect. They learned the dialect that they were exposed to. So the ...
... would have defied gravity. You expect objects to conform to a set of rules, and if they don't, you stare at them. You would have stared at that cup even if you had never learned about gravity in school. The same thing applies to a baby.
... learned knowledge? Because babies everywhere know the same stuff at the same age no matter what they have been exposed to. Preexisting complexity also seems built into the human visual system. At the level of human perception, many ...
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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