The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are Jasanoff AlanPevná vazba
The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are Jasanoff AlanPevná vazba A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brainsTo many, the brain…
Specifikacia The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are Jasanoff AlanPevná vazba
The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are Jasanoff AlanPevná vazba
A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brainsTo many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. This blinds us to the physical realities of mental function. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact.
As a result, we alternately overestimate our capacity for free will or equate brains to inorganic machines like computers. We ignore bodily influences on our psychology, from chemicals in the blood to bacteria in the gut, and overlook the ways that the environment affects our behavior, via factors varying from subconscious sights and sounds to the weather. But a brain is neither a soul nor an electrical network: it is a bodily organ, and it cannot be separated from its surroundings.
Our selves aren't just inside our heads--they're spread throughout our bodies and