A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers - Softcover

Ramachandran, V. S.

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ISBN 10: 0131872788 ISBN 13: 9780131872783

Verlag: Pi Press, 2005

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"V. S. Ramachandran is one of our most gifted physicians and expositors, and in this new book he illuminates everything he touches--whether it is phantom limbs and how they can be 'cured'; or how the brain can generate illusions and delusions; or synesthesia and its relation to metaphor, creativity and art; or the ultimate questions of how brain relates to mind. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness belongs to that rare category of scientific book, one as accessible as it is deep."--Oliver Sacks, M.D., bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move

"Packed with ideas that are bold, irreverent, original, and ingenious. A breath of fresh air."--David Hubel, Nobel Laureate, Harvard University

"An extraordinary book by a remarkable scientist!... the modern Paul Broca."--Eric R. Kandel, M.D., Nobel Laureate, Columbia University

"An engaging book featuring a remarkable degree of insight, originality, and erudition."--Neurology Today

Reseña del editor:

How can some people come to believe that their poodle is an impostor? Or see colors in numbers? Internationally acclaimed neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran now shares his unique insight into human consciousness in an entertaining, inspiring, and intellectually dazzling brief tour of the ultimate frontier—the thoughts in our heads.

A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness is made up of five investigations of the greatest mysteries of the brain, including:

-how amputees feel pain in limbs they no longer have, which introduces the great revolution of our age: neuroscience
-the way what we see determines our thoughts, and the counterintuitive point that believing is in fact seeing
-why, the world over, cultures have fundamentally similar notions of what is attractive
-the bizarre world of synesthetes, people who see colors in numbers, textures in smells, sounds in sights, and flavors in sounds
-the implications of the revolution in our understanding of consciousness, to make a fascinating argument about our essential sense of self and its distributed nature

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• Verlag: Pi Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0131872788
• ISBN 13: 9780131872783
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208