Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain“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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I will maintain that the mind, which is somehow generated by the physical
processes of the brain, constrains the brain. Just as political norms of governance
emerge from the individuals who give rise to them and ultimately control them,
the ...
He later suggested that if the immune system works on this selection process,
then most likely other systems do, too, including the brain. Jerne wrote an article
in 1967, entitled “Antibodies and Learning: Selection versus Instruction,”16 on
the ...
At the level of human perception, many other automatic processes are also built
in. For example, in the visual realm, what is there is not necessarily what you see.
It has long been known that two squares with the same measured light intensity ...
If one individual, or a small group of them, invent a new process, others can, and
do, imitate and learn.” Most of what we humans do originated with just one
human's smart idea, which we copy. Who was it that made that first cup ofjoe from
...
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Gebruikersrecensie - dreamweaver529 - LibraryThingAn interesting study of the interplay between mind and brain. Predominantly through studying of patents who have had their corpus callosum severed, thus separating the hemispheres of the brain, the ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - chaosmogony - LibraryThing"We are people, not brains." That sums up the thrust of Gazzaniga's argument in "Who's in Charge?", adapted from his 2009 Gifford Lecture, a thorough and accessible look at trends in modern ... Volledige review lezen
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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Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain Michael S. Gazzaniga Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain Michael Gazzaniga Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2012 |
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain Michael S. Gazzaniga Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2011 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain The Gifford lectures |
| Auteur | Michael S. Gazzaniga |
| Uitgever | Harper Collins, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0062096834, 9780062096838 |
| Lengte | 272 pagina's |
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