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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The dominant idea in modern neuroscience is that a full understanding of the
brain will reveal all one needs to know about how the brain enables mind, that it
will prove to be enabled in an upwardly causal way, and that all is determined.
To understand some of the claims that have been made about living in a
deterministic world, we will visit a few different layers of science, going from the
micro world of subatomic particles, places you never thought neuroscience would
take ...
Man has always been intrigued with the nature of the mind, self, and the human
condition. Where does this curiosity come from? That is not what your dog is
thinking about on the couch. Today, neuroscientists are exploring the brain by
poking ...
7 Colloquially this is known in neuroscience as “Neurons that fire together, wire
together” and forms the basis of Hebb's proposals for learning and memory. He
proposed that groups of neurons that fire together make up what he called a cell
...
The foundational work that became the backbone of modern neuroscience and
emphasized the importance of neurospecificity was done by Paul Weiss's student
Roger Sperry. How the connectivity, or wiring, took place was the question that ...
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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 | |
Overige edities - Alles weergeven
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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