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You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 410
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You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R441
Discovery Miles 4 410
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Identity is a term much used yet hard to define. Perhaps for this
reason, the concept has long been a favourite with philosphers, and
for the very same reason has been avoided by brain scientists, -
until now. In this neurobiological exploration of identity,
Greenfield briefly reviews the social perspective from finger
prints, to faces, to signatures of the many ways we try to identity
ourselves, - in vain. The psychiatric perspective however does
offer some valuable clues that then leads to an excursion into the
physical brain: the neuroscience perspective. But identity cannot
just be an objective phenomenon: hence any pertinent brain
phenomena have to be seen also, as they are in the follwing
chapter, from an individual perspective. Armed with the insights
gained from these diverse approaches, Greenfield attempts to
conceive of actual scenarios in the physical brain that would
correspond to familiar examples of identity. However, given the
physical brain adapts exquisitely to the environemnt, and the 21st
Century environment is changing in unprecedented ways, are we
facing correspondingly unprecedented changes to our identity?
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