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Book 2018

Consciousness Instinct

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Language
English
Published
2018
  • Brain
  • Mind and body
  • Consciousness
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • SCIENCE
  • Life Sciences
  • Anatomy & Physiology
  • Physiology

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.