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The consciousness instinct : unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind / Michael S. Gazzaniga.

Gazzaniga, Michael S., author.
2018
QP376 .G386 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The consciousness instinct : unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind / Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Author
Gazzaniga, Michael S., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374715502 (hardcover)
0374715505 (hardcover)
9780374128760 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Language
English
Description
274 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
QP376 .G386 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8/2
Summary
How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff"--Atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells--create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the science of the brain, and yet the puzzles faced by the ancient Greeks are still present. In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S. Gazzaniga puts the latest research in conversation with the history of human thinking about the mind, giving a big-picture view of what science has revealed about consciousness.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
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Introduction
Part I. Getting ready for modern thought. History's rigid, rocky, and goofy way of thinking about consciousness
The dawn of empirical thinking in philosophy
Twentieth-century strides and openings to modern thought
Part II. The physical system. Making brains one module at a time
The beginnings of understanding brain architecture
Gramps is demented but conscious
Part III. Consciousness comes. The concept of complementarity : the gift from physics
Non-living to living and neurons to mind
Bubbling brooks and personal consciousness
Consciousness is an instinct.

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