Balance: How It Works and What It Means Thagard Paul
Balance: How It Works and What It Means Thagard Paul Living is a balancing act. A dancer's poised elegance and a tightrope walker's breathtaking performance are feats of balance. Ordinary activities…
Specifikacia Balance: How It Works and What It Means Thagard Paul
Balance: How It Works and What It Means Thagard Paul
Living is a balancing act. A dancer's poised elegance and a tightrope walker's breathtaking performance are feats of balance. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance.
People fret over work-life balance or try to eat a balanced diet. Language abounds with expressions and figures of speech that invoke balance. The concept crops up from politics--checks and balances, the balance of power, balanced budgets--to science, in which ideas of equilibrium are crucial.
Why is balance so fundamental, and how do physical and metaphorical balance shed light on each other?Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. He describes the neural mechanisms that keep bodies balanced and explains why their failures can result in nausea, falls, or vertigo.