How Brains Make Up Their Minds (Maps of the Mind) - Softcover

Freeman, Walter J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231120095 ISBN 13: 9780231120098

Verlag: Columbia Univ Pr, 2001

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Reseña del editor:

It was obvious to the ancient Greeks, and the Egyptians before them, that all our plans, desires, and beliefs come from our brains. Descartes conceived the brain as the site of action of the soul, where it worked the valves regulating the flow of brain fluids like a pilot guiding a ship. Brain scientists today have dismissed the pilot, thereby creating "the mystery of consciousness." How can mere neurons, which are only little bags of chemicals, work together in brains and bodies to create the grandeur of human life, culture, and experience? How in a materialist world can we reinstate the pilot, the self in each of us, that endows us with the powers of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?"

Biografía del autor:

Walter J. Freeman is professor in the Graduate School in the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught brain science for forty years.

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• Verlag: Columbia Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0231120095
• ISBN 13: 9780231120098
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 171