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Book Synopsis The Idea of the Brain by : Matthew Cobb
Download or read book The Idea of the Brain written by Matthew Cobb and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological advances -- the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery. "I cannot recommend this book strongly enough."--Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The Idea of the Brain, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb traces how our conception of the brain has evolved over the centuries. Although it might seem to be a story of ever-increasing knowledge of biology, Cobb shows how our ideas about the brain have been shaped by each era's most significant technologies. Today we might think the brain is like a supercomputer. In the past, it has been compared to a telegraph, a telephone exchange, or some kind of hydraulic system. What will we think the brain is like tomorrow, when new technology arises? The result is an essential read for anyone interested in the complex processes that drive science and the forces that have shaped our marvelous brains.
Book Synopsis The Idea of the Brain by : Matthew Cobb
Download or read book The Idea of the Brain written by Matthew Cobb and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize A New Statesman Book of the Year This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge. Our latest theories allow us to create artificial memories in the brain of a mouse, and to build AI programmes capable of extraordinary cognitive feats. A complete understanding seems within our grasp. But to make that final breakthrough, we may need a radical new approach. At every step of our quest, Cobb shows that it was new ideas that brought illumination. Where, he asks, might the next one come from? What will it be?
Download or read book Thinking Matter written by Matthew Cobb and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. Here's how we found out what we know so far. We've been trying to make sense of the link between our minds and our bodies since the very dawn of civilisation. Now the pace is hotting up. Join the biologist and historian Matthew Cobb (Life's Greatest Secret) to explore the weird theories, blasphemous experiments and terrifying operating theatres that got us here, to the cusp of revelation. Written with ambition and verve and rooted in a solid scientific explanation of the issues, The Idea of the Brain spans the centuries to reveal how the lives and works of a parade of philosophers, surgeons, mystics and neuroscientists have shaped the way we understand ourselves at the most profound level. From primitive dissections to the latest complex computational models of brain function, Cobb charts the course of this continuing quest, and prepares us for the astonishing discoveries to come.
Book Synopsis The Consciousness Instinct by : Michael S. Gazzaniga
Download or read book The Consciousness Instinct written by Michael S. Gazzaniga and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 the ancient Greeks are still present. In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S. Gazzaniga puts the latest research in conversation with the history of human thinking about the mind, giving a big-picture view of what science has revealed about consciousness. The idea of the brain as a machine, first proposed centuries ago, has led to assumptions about the relationship between mind and brain that dog scientists and philosophers to this day. Gazzaniga asserts that this model has it backward—brains make machines, but they cannot be reduced to one. New research suggests the brain is actually a confederation of independent modules working together. Understanding how consciousness could emanate from such an organization will help define the future of brain science and artificial intelligence, and close the gap between brain and mind. Captivating and accessible, with insights drawn from a lifetime at the forefront of the field, The Consciousness Instinct sets the course for the neuroscience of tomorrow.
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Download or read book The Journal of Speculative Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis A Treatise on Human Nature by : David Hume
Download or read book A Treatise on Human Nature written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Jewish Quarterly Review by : Claude Goldsmid Montefiore
Download or read book The Jewish Quarterly Review written by Claude Goldsmid Montefiore and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philosophical works.- vol. III. Miscellanies and memoir by : Thomas Hill Green
Download or read book Philosophical works.- vol. III. Miscellanies and memoir written by Thomas Hill Green and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Works of Thomas Hill Green: Philosophical works written by Thomas Hill Green and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza: De intellectus emendatione. Ethica. Correspondence. (abridged) by : Benedictus de Spinoza
Download or read book The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza: De intellectus emendatione. Ethica. Correspondence. (abridged) written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza: De intellectus emendatione. Ethica. Select letters by : Benedictus de Spinoza
Download or read book The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza: De intellectus emendatione. Ethica. Select letters written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Idea of Immortality by : Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison
Download or read book The Idea of Immortality written by Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introduction to Physiological Psychology by : Theodor Ziehen
Download or read book Introduction to Physiological Psychology written by Theodor Ziehen and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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