Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the BrainHarper Collins, 15 nov 2011 - 272 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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... mechanisms of mind that neuroscientists now have worked out, none of it impacts responsibility—one of the deep core values of human life. In substantiating this claim, I am going to explain the route and some of the detours that we have ...
... mechanisms of action were sketchy, but he had the principles down. So I guess that leaves science to explain the mechanisms, and in doing so we best take the advice of Sherlock Holmes, who was known for his scientific method: “The ...
... mechanisms and intelligence in animals; he had carefully induced damage to the cerebral cortex in rats and quantified it, measuring their behavior before and after he made the lesions. While he found that the amount of cortical tissue ...
... mechanisms were made, but his insistence on combining biology with psychology marked the path that in little more than a decade led to the new field of neuroscience. It was beginning to be understood that once information was learned ...
... mechanism of neuron growth is that the brain's organizational scheme throughout the vertebrate kingdom is generally the same. Leah Krubitzer, an evolutionary neurobiologist at the University of California–Davis, thinks that it is ...
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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