Michael S. Gazzaniga
Author
Series
Gifford lectures volume 2009
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The "father of cognitive neuroscience" makes a powerful and provocative argument against today's common wisdom that our lives are wholly determined by physical processes we cannot control"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The father of cognitive neuroscience" illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problem
How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff"-atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells-create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the science of the brain, and yet the puzzles faced by...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. In Human, Gazzaniga explores a number of related issues, including what makes human brains unique, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence....
Series
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An essential addition to the Stone Reader series, Question Everything is a groundbreaking collection of philosophical essays from some of our foremost thinkers and storytellers. When The Stone Reader--a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy column--first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide of post-fact...