The Brain - Velha Estante

paperback, 256 pages

Published March 7, 2017 by Vintage.

ISBN:: 978-0-525-43344-6

(1 review)

"The dramatic story of the brain's role in creating our world, our experience of it, and ourselves; the basis for a PBS television series by the bestselling David Eagleman. How does a three pound mass of biological matter locked in the dark, silent fortress of the skull produce the extraordinary multi-sensory experience that comprises us, while also constructing reality and guiding us through the endless need to make decisions and determine our judgments and into a future that we are convinced we are shaping? David Eagleman compares the brain to a cityscape with different neighborhoods where neural networks vie for supremacy and determine our behavior in ways we are not always aware or in control of. At the same time, he suggests that the brain works as a storyteller--creating a narrative that allows us to navigate and make sense of a world that it is busy constructing for us"--

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3 stars

Here’s another interesting book about a fundamental topic that should interest every person out there. Why? Because we all have brains, and knowing how it works, its potencial, its many quirks and limitations, can prove useful to better understand our own potentials and become more accepting of our many perceived flaws.

If you are familiar with the topic, this book problably won’t bring you any new knowledge or radically change the way you view your world or how you understand your own mind.

But if you’re looking for a good introductory book on this subject, David Eagleman’s The Brain: The Story of You will certainly surprise you and, in a akward way, delight you, for it is well written, very engaging, and clear in its many explanations, making a hard subject matter into a very compelling narrative.

For all this, and for whatever else it provides, this book, as …

Here’s another interesting book about a fundamental topic that should interest every person out there. Why? Because we all have brains, and knowing how it works, its potencial, its many quirks and limitations, can prove useful to better understand our own potentials and become more accepting of our many perceived flaws.

If you are familiar with the topic, this book problably won’t bring you any new knowledge or radically change the way you view your world or how you understand your own mind.

But if you’re looking for a good introductory book on this subject, David Eagleman’s The Brain: The Story of You will certainly surprise you and, in a akward way, delight you, for it is well written, very engaging, and clear in its many explanations, making a hard subject matter into a very compelling narrative.

For all this, and for whatever else it provides, this book, as others by the same author, is definitely worth reading.

Knowing how weird our brains are, how complicated and complex is its functioning, and, consequently, how weird, complicated and complex we are can be baffling at first. But as you move on, the existential angst this might provoke will naturally subside.