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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

Categorie	Filosofie
Boeknummer	#319117-VG10
Titel	Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
Auteur	Damasio, Antonio
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Vintage Books
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	030747495X
ISBN13	9780307474957
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, some b/w illustrations, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain's development of a human self is a challenge to nature's indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most de... (Lees verder)fining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.
Pagina's	398
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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