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What Should We Do with Our Brain?
Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized?plasticity,? the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselve...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Perspectives in continental philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized?plasticity,? the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings. Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (130 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780823229543 0823229548 1282698877 9781282698871 |