Roger Bartra

Anthropology of the Brain

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Produktbeschreibung

A novel study on consciousness and the brain that places culture at the center of the analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781107629820
• ISBN-10: 1107629829
• Artikelnr.: 40466302

Autorenporträt

Roger Bartra is Professor Emeritus at the University of Mexico (UNAM) and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Consciousness and Symbolic Systems: 1. The hypothesis
2. Evolution of the brain
3. Brain plasticity
4. Is there an internal language?
5. Amputations and supputations
6. The atrophied exocerebrum
7. The symbolic substitution system
8. Neuronal mirrors
9. Consciousness within hand's reach
10. Outside and inside: the immense blue
11. The musical spheres of consciousness
12. Artificial memory
13. The lost soul
Part II. Brain and Free Will: 14. The hands of Orlac
15. Does free will exist?
16. An experiment with freedom
17. The moral brain
18. Unchained reasons
19. Freedom in play
20. External symbols
21. Final reflections.