Your Brain Is a Time Machine - The Neuroscience and Physics of Time (Hardcover)

"Time" is the most common noun in the English language yet philosophers and scientists don't agree about what time actually is or how to define it. Perhaps this is because the brain tells, represents and perceives time in multiple ways. Dean Buonomano investigates the relationship between the brain and time, looking at what time is, why it seems to speed up or slow down and whether our sense that time flows is an illusion. Buonomano presents his theory of how the brain tells time, and illuminates such concepts as free will, consciousness, space-time and relativity from the perspective of a neuroscientist. Drawing on physics, evolutionary biology and philosophy, he reveals that the brain's ultimate purpose may be to predict the future-and thus that your brain is a time machine.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2017
Authors:	Dean Buonomano
Dimensions:	243 x 163 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	293
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-24794-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Time (chronology) > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
LSN:	0-393-24794-5
Barcode:	9780393247947

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