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The mind's past /

Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? Michael S. Gazzaniga shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. By showing that the specific sys...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? Michael S. Gazzaniga shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. By showing that the specific systems built into our brain do their work automatically and largely outside of our conscious awareness, Gazzaniga calls into question our everyday notions of self and reality. The implications of his ideas reach deeply into the nature of perception and memory, the profundity of human instinct, and the ways we construct who we are and how we fit into the world around us. Gazzaniga explains how the mind interprets data the brain has already processed, making "us" the last to know. He shows how what "we" see is frequently an illusion and not at all what our brain is perceiving. False memories become a part of our experience; autobiography is fiction. In exploring how the brain enables the mind, Gazzaniga points us toward one of the greatest mysteries of human evolution: how we become who we are
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 201 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index.
ISBN:9780520925489
0520925483
0585031738
9780585031736