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Cargando... The brain : the story of you (edición 2016)por David Eagleman
Información de la obraThe Brain: The Story of You por David Eagleman
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  yates9 | Feb 28, 2024 |    ) omarhussain125 | Aug 24, 2023 | * You never experience the outside world directly, but are seeing your brain’s simplified and stylised portrayal of it—map rather than territory, a cartoonised version of reality. We’re never quite seeing the present moment either, there’s always a lag (which the brain edits out to give the impression that we really are “in the moment”). * Colours, sounds, tastes and so on are not features of the world itself, but of your brain’s simplification of it—map rather than territory again. * There’s nothing special about what are, to us human beings, the five familiar senses; we see, hear and so on only the tiny fraction of what is out there that’s most useful. Most useful to us, that is; other species see the fraction most useful to them, or use different senses entirely. * Central to all this, and to your experience of being “you” as well, is memory. This is not even remotely like a film camera passively recording and storing; your brain edits, heavily and continually, reconstructs and even fabricates outright. Neuroscience is a fashionable subject at the moment, and Eagleman’s The Brain follows the fashionable line: the human brain as the most complex object in the known universe, the pinnacle of…(you get the idea). As an antidote to all that I’d recommend Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett, which takes a refreshingly irreverent (and arguably more realistic) approach. To anyone with enough curiosity to have read and thought about all this stuff already, Eagleman’s book doesn’t really add anything new. It is very well written though, in plain language, and would make a decent introduction. ( )1  justlurking | Nov 9, 2022 | The last chapter was the saving grace to what otherwise would have been just a superficial grazing of the surface of the interesting topic of the brain. ( ) Herculean_Librarian | Sep 10, 2022 |  ) BarbF410 | May 22, 2022 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Despus de desentraarnos las vidas secretas del cerebro en su libro anterior, Incgnito, David Eagleman, uno de los ms reconocidos neurocientficos de la actualidad, vuelve a sorprendernos con esta nueva exploracin de la ciencia del cerebro, esa extraa materia computacional que hay dentro de nuestro crneo y que constituye la maquinaria perceptiva mediante la cual nos movemos por el mundo, de la que surgen las decisiones, el material del que se forja la imaginacin. Porque lo cierto es que comprender mejor el cerebro supone arrojar luz sobre lo que consideramos ms real en nuestras relaciones personales y lo que consideramos necesario en nuestra poltica social: cmo luchamos, cmo amamos, qu aceptamos como cierto, cmo deberamos educar, cmo podemos elaborar una poltica social mejor y cmo disear nuestros cuerpos para los siglos venideros. En los circuitos microscpicamente pequeos del cerebro se graba la historia y el futuro de nuestra especie. Con su prosa brillante y provocativa, Eagleman toma el relevo de Oliver Sacks y nos lleva a reflexionar acerca de quines somos, qu es la realidad, quin controla nuestras decisiones, hasta qu punto necesitamos a los dems y cmo la ciencia puede ayudarnos a superar las limitaciones de nuestro propio cuerpo. Las pginas de este libro harn que nos replanteemos todos nuestros supuestos, pues su pretensin consiste en salvar el abismo existente entre la literatura acadmica y las vidas que llevamos en cuanto poseedores de un cerebro. Entre la maraa infinitamente densa de miles de millones de clulas cerebrales y sus miles de billones de conexiones seremos capaces de vislumbrar y descubrir algo que a lo mejor no esperbamos ver: a nosotros mismos, una especie que apenas est comenzando a descubrir las herramientas para modelar su propio destino.
How does a three pound mass of biological matter locked in the dark, silent fortress of the skull produce the extraordinary multi-sensory experience that comprises us, while also constructing reality and guiding us through the endless need to make decisions and determine our judgments and into a future that we are convinced we are shaping? David Eagleman compares the brain to a cityscape with different neighborhoods where neural networks vie for supremacy and determine our behavior in ways we are not always aware or in control of. At the same time, he suggests that the brain works as a storyteller--creating a narrative that allows us to navigate and make sense of a world that it is busy constructing for us.-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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If you are a reader in the field, or looking for depth, the book may frustrate you because the author does not go into the complexity of the subject matter rather presents an initial design of the area, a key experiment and then moves on.
The most unfortunate side effect of this writing style is, in some cases, it can misinform, or allow people to persist in bad ideas: the simulation hypothesis one example, which is completely unnecessary for a discussion of future of neuroscience and is a scientifically useless philosophy, but prominently ends the book. (