I think, therefore I am. The legendary pronouncement of
philosopher Ren? Descartes lingers as accepted wisdom in the
Western world nearly four centuries after its author's death. But
does thought really come first? Who actually runs the show: we, our
thoughts, or the neurons firing within our brains?
Walter J. Freeman explores how we control our behavior and make
sense of the world around us. Avoiding determinism both in
sociobiology, which proposes that persons' genes control their
brains' functioning, and in neuroscience, which posits that their
brains' disposition is molded by chemistry and environmental
forces, Freeman charts a new course -- one that gives individuals
due credit and responsibility for their actions.
Drawing upon his five decades of research in neuroscience,
Freeman utilizes the latest advances in his field as well as
perspectives from disciplines as diverse as mathematics,
psychology, and philosophy to explicate how different human brains
act in their chosen diverse ways. He clarifies the implications of
brain imaging, by which neural activity can be observed during the
course of normal movements, and shows how nonlinear dynamics
reveals order within the fecund chaos of brain function.
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