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Mind from Body - Experience from neural structure (Hardcover)
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Mind from Body - Experience from neural structure (Hardcover)
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Although we no longer live in the relative simplicity of the
Jurassic age, and even though we are not aware of them, primitive
mammalian brain that developed in that era still live on inside our
skulls and remain crucial to our daily functions. The challenges we
face today in the information age--how to process the vastly
greater, more varied and quickly changing inputs we receive--are
very different from those that our ancestors faced during the
Jurassic age. As we struggle to process overwhelming amounts of
information, we may sometimes ask whether our brains can change to
help us adapt. In fact, our brains have always changed gradually,
so the questions we should ask are really how our brains will
change, and whether we will be able to take full advantage of the
changes, perhaps even enhance them, to help us keep up with the
accelerating evolution of machines. To understand how our brains
will change, we need to understand how they evolved in the first
place, as well as how the interactions of the resulting brain
structures, including the relics of primitive mammalian and even
reptilian processes, influence how we think and act.
In Mind from Body, Don Tucker, one of the most original thinkers
about organic information processing, provides a fascinating
analysis of how our brains have become what they are today and
speculates intriguingly about what they could be tomorrow. He
presents important research that explains how personal experience
creates the emotional and motivational bases of each of our
thoughts, even though we are usually not aware that it is
happening. Tucker shows that in exploring how these bodily thought
processes still determine how we react to the world andmake
decisions, we can become more rational in our actions, free
ourselves from fruitless or even self-destructive patterns of
behavior, become more efficient, and perhaps even wiser. By
combining the most up-to-date scientific thought and hands-on
experimental results, expressed clearly and compellingly, along
with a story of hypothetical decision-making, Tucker explicates
what is happening behind our thought processes as our minds
struggle to maintain the pace of the information age.
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