The Minder Brain : How Your Brain Keeps You Alive, Protects You From Danger, And Ensures That You Reproduce.
Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world all this is somehow enabled by the brain. The brain is the person, and if it goes wrong, a person is ruined. This book is about part of what the brain does a role of wh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world all this is somehow enabled by the brain. The brain is the person, and if it goes wrong, a person is ruined. This book is about part of what the brain does a role of which many of us are hardly aware, but one that has ensured, the survival of mankind. Despite famine, drought, wars, cold, infections and hostile environments, we survive as a species though not always as individuals. All this time, our brains have been coping with what fate throws at us a pro. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
ISBN: | 9789812771490 9812771492 1281121282 9781281121288 |