The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are - Couverture rigide

Jasanoff, Alan

 
9780465052684: The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
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ISBN 10 : 0465052681 ISBN 13 : 9780465052684
Editeur : Basic Books, 2018

Synopsis

A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains

To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact. This blinds us to the physical realities of mental function. We ignore bodily influences on our psychology, from chemicals in the blood to bacteria in the gut, and overlook the ways that the environment affects our behavior, via factors varying from subconscious sights and sounds to the weather. As a result, we alternately overestimate our capacity for free will or equate brains to inorganic machines like computers. But a brain is neither a soul nor an electrical network: it is a bodily organ, and it cannot be separated from its surroundings. Our selves aren't just inside our heads--they're spread throughout our bodies and beyond. Only once we come to terms with this can we grasp the true nature of our humanity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alan Jasanoff is the award-winning director of the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering. He lives near Cambridge, Massachusett

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465052681
ISBN 13 
9780465052684
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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