The mind's past
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
- ISBN13 9780520224865
- ISBN10 0520224868
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 201
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1998
- Bindung Gebunden
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Philosophie Des GeistesThe mind's past
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past--a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. By showing that the specific systems built into our brain do their work automatically and largely outside of our conscious awareness, Gazzaniga calls into question our everyday notions of self and reality. The implications of his ideas reach deeply into the nature of perception and memory, the profundity of human instinct, and the ways we construct who we are and how we fit into the world around us.