Who You Are: The Science of Connectedness - Couverture rigide

Spivey, Michael J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262043955 ISBN 13 : 9780262043953

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2020

Synopsis

Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your assumptions about who you are.

Who are you? Are you just a brain? A brain and a body? All the things you have done and the friends you have made? Many of us assume that who we really are is something deep inside us, an inner sanctuary that contains our true selves. In Who You Are, Michael Spivey argues that the opposite is true: that you are more than a brain, more than a brain-and-body, and more than all your assumptions about who you are. Rather than peeling layers away to reveal the inner you, Spivey traces who you are outward. You may already feel in your heart that something outside your body is actually part of you—a child, a place, a favorite book. Spivey confirms this intuition with scientific findings.

With each chapter, Spivey incrementally expands a common definition of the self. After (gently) helping you to discard your assumptions about who you are, he draws on research in cognitive science and neuroscience to explain the back-and-forth among all the regions of the brain and the interaction between the brain and body. He then makes the case for understanding objects and locations in your environment as additional parts of who we are. Going even further, he shows that, just as interaction links brain, body, and environment, ever-expanding systems of interaction link humans to other humans, to nonhuman animals, and to nonliving matter. This may seem an interaction or two too far. But you don't have to take his word for it—just consider the evidence he presents.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael J. Spivey is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Merced, and the author of The Continuity of Mind. He was awarded the William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262043955
• ISBN 13: 9780262043953
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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