A Short History Of Memory: Neuroscience and the Search for the Mind - Couverture souple

Barnes, Mr. Lynard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0985826290 ISBN 13 : 9780985826291

Editeur : Trices Group Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

We all have memories. Memory is the past. Memory is the history of perceptions perceived. In an age in which the world bombards our senses seemingly non-stop, we should have a universe full of memories defining and neatly labeling our past. But what exactly is the past? Using foundations laid by neuroscience, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEMORY opens an exploration into the brain that perceives and the mind that remembers and reacts to the past. It starts with a simple question: where do the images we experience in nightly dreams come from? Dreams are memories. But there are conundrums embedded in this answer which have plagued philosophers and scientists since Aristotle came up with the idea of a soul or mind. If memory is the past and our minds, our consciousness, uses memory to define who we are in time and space, what in the past explains the “un-experienced”—such as the magic and fantasy of dream images? “Suppose we have it all wrong. Suppose our consciousness is the simultaneous act of two entities looking at each other in a funhouse mirror we call the universe. . . . “ From visual perception, to the electro-chemical factory of neurons; from neurotransmitters and millisecond clocks; from dreams to déjà vu experiences: an exploration into the neuroscience of the brain and the inexplicable idea of a self emerging from opposing forces, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEMORY provides an empirical bridge between science and the conundrum of consciousness.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Trices Group Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0985826290
• ISBN 13: 9780985826291
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg