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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... ideas pointed out the centrality of the idea of the importance of connectivity. It remains a central topic of study in neuroscience today. Hebb focused his attention on neural networks and how they might work to learn information. While ...
... to the idea that a type of chemotaxis regulated the growth and termination of nerve fibers, first proposed early in the twentieth century by one of the greatest neuroscientists of all time, Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Sperry.
... idea has led to the notion, still prevalent in neuroscience today, of neural specificity. Sperry's original model has been altered and changed with subtle adjustments and some tweaking, but his general model for neuronal growth remains.
... ideas that are only inborn and not derived from external sources. The limits on this idea had been foreshadowed by Hebb. Experience. About the same time as Sperry was finetuning his theory of nerve development in the early 1960s, a young ...
... were recognized or selected by one of these innate antibodies. No instruction was going on, just selection. The complexity is built into the immune system, it doesn't become more so overtime. His ideas are the foundation.
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 - 2011 |