Bursting with insight and drawing from multiple disciplines, this book collects humanity's best guesses of how our brain works.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Patrick House is a neuroscientist with a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His scientific research focuses on the neuroscience of free will and how mind-control parasites alter their host's behaviour. He writes about science, technology and culture for The New Yorker, Nautilus magazine and Slate; his work was selected for the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 anthology. His fiction has been published in Nature. House lives in Los Angeles, California.
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1. Relative to the Observer Who Is Also a Liar 2. Like the Rise and Fall of Pinball 3. The Anxiety Felt While Prevented from Migrating 4. The Music While the Music Lasts 5. A Secondhand Markov Blanket 6. A Simulation Starring You 7. The Median Price of a Thrift-Store Bin of Evolutionary Hacks Russian-Dolled into a Watery, Salty Piñata We Call a Head 8. Sunlight Raining Down on Gridworld 9. An Ante Meridiem Radio Drama 10. A Small Town with Too Much Food 11. The Arbiter of Elegance 12. Swinging Through Ancient Trees While Standing Still and Hearing Voices 13. Endeavoring to Grow Wings 14. The North African Rhino of Charismatic Megaquale 15. An Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Quantum-Dot-Like Non-Machiney 16. A Make-Believe Parasite with No Legs and Places to Go 17. A Sex-Starved Cricket Sculpting in Time 18. A Small (or Large) Learning Machine Made Out of Words 19. Not That Hard 20. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
1. Relative to the Observer Who Is Also a Liar 2. Like the Rise and Fall of Pinball 3. The Anxiety Felt While Prevented from Migrating 4. The Music While the Music Lasts 5. A Secondhand Markov Blanket 6. A Simulation Starring You 7. The Median Price of a Thrift-Store Bin of Evolutionary Hacks Russian-Dolled into a Watery, Salty Piñata We Call a Head 8. Sunlight Raining Down on Gridworld 9. An Ante Meridiem Radio Drama 10. A Small Town with Too Much Food 11. The Arbiter of Elegance 12. Swinging Through Ancient Trees While Standing Still and Hearing Voices 13. Endeavoring to Grow Wings 14. The North African Rhino of Charismatic Megaquale 15. An Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Quantum-Dot-Like Non-Machiney 16. A Make-Believe Parasite with No Legs and Places to Go 17. A Sex-Starved Cricket Sculpting in Time 18. A Small (or Large) Learning Machine Made Out of Words 19. Not That Hard 20. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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