Libros
Oliver Sacks · Vintage Canada, 2018
"Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated by the issues, ideas, and questions of all the sciences.
That wide-ranging expertise and passion informs the perspective of this book, in which he interrogates the nature not only of human experience but of all life. In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James.
For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age; the questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. The River of Consciousness demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human."--Dust jacket flap.
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Divulgación · En inglés
Oliver Sacks
Vintage Books, 2011
"Ich wuchs in einem Haushalt voller Ärzte und medizinischer Gespräche auf – mein Vater und meine älteren Brüder waren Allgemeinärzte und meine Mutter Chirurgin. Viele Unterhaltungen bei Tisch drehten sich zwangsläufig um medizinische Themen, es ging aber nie nur um ‹Fälle›. Ein Patient mochte als Beispiel für diese…
Introducción · En inglés
Susan J. Blackmore
Oxford University Press, 2017
Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these…
Divulgación · En inglés
Nick Lane
Norton, 2010
Draws on cutting-edge scientific findings to chronicle the history of biological life, exploring a wide range of clues from gene sequences to the atomic structures of proteins to identify 10 key evolutionary developments that enabled consciousness, the creation of DNA and other building blocks. Reprint. A Scientific…
Divulgación · En inglés
David Ewing Duncan
HarperCollins, 2008
James Watson, J. Craig Venter, Francis Collins, Cynthia Kenyon ... you may not know them, but you should. They are the masterminds of genetics and biotechnology who want you to live to be 150 years old, to regenerate your heart and brain, to create synthetic life. For better or worse, they are about to alter life on…
Universitario
Juan Pablo Davico
Global Science Editorial, 2011
NATURAL PRINCIPLES OF MIND II: NEUROSCIENCE. In this book it applies "the neurophysical model of the functioning of the brain" (developed in the first book) for the detailed elucidation of the mechanism by which the most complex functions of the brain are produced. Thus, dedicating an entire chapter to each function…
Divulgación
Antonio Damasio
Booket, 2018
Damasio, el admirado maestro de Punset, expone con claridad el fascinante proceso por el cual un órgano físico, el cerebro, creó el yo y la mente humana, generadora de ideas y emociones. El lenguaje, la conciencia moral y la creatividad son tres rasgos del ser humano que no se habrían desarrollado si no tuviera…
