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Neuropolis - A Brain Science Survival Guide (Hardcover, Epub Edition)
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Neuropolis - A Brain Science Survival Guide (Hardcover, Epub Edition)
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List price R612
Loot Price R455
Discovery Miles 4 550
You Save R157 (26%)
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Are we our brains? How can you map the mind? Can brain scans read
our minds? Based on Rob Newman's live stand-up show and new BBC
Radio 4 series, his thought-provoking new book explores the
scientific breakthroughs that have turned received ideas of brain
science upside down. After imagining volunteering for a
brain-imaging experiment meant to locate the part of the brain that
lights up when you're in love, comedian Robert Newman emerged with
more questions than answers. In Neuropolis Newman argues that the
current claim that the brain is just a complicated computer derives
from science, but from a combination of philosophical stowaways and
a version of evolutionary biology that owes little to Darwin. He
questions why brain science is devoted to such a peculiarly
reductionist world view, when really exciting advances in
neuroscience go untold, such as awe-inspiring discoveries about the
origins of memory in ancient oceans. He also shows that our brains
are inextricably and profoundly intertwined with our bodies, the
natural world and the world we have made, including hilarious
accounts of his own participation in neurological experiments.
Debunking the common, even brainless interpretations of brain
science, he celebrates the more intriguing and underreported
advances in neuroscience with zest and wit.
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