One Second Before: How the Brain Constructs a Future That Becomes the Present
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One Second Before: How the Brain Constructs a Future That Becomes the Present
14.99 €
Is your brain interpreting the world or hallucinating? While you think you're observing reality, your brain is imagining what it could be like—and feeding you these "facts." Daniel Yon is an expert in cognitive neuroscience. Using the latest neuroscience data, he vividly demonstrates how the human mind predicts and programs our reality.
Our relationship with the brain is quite complicated. This is because the mind seems to lead a double life, being a source of both pride and shame. On the one hand, true miracles occur in the brain: this organ discovered penicillin, invented democracy, literature, and art, and conquered the earth, oceans, and sky.
On the other hand, the human mind is fragile. This same brain traps many of us in superstitions, prejudices, and biases, enslaving us to fringe movements, wild conspiracy theories, or—no less insidiously—casting us into a personal prison where our feelings, thoughts, and experiences transform the mind into a threatening or frightening place.
But this view of the world carries certain risks. When the brain formulates an incorrect theory about the world around us or ourselves, we become prone
to misperceptions and misunderstandings. We create an introspective theory of our own mind and who we are, creating an accurate—or inaccurate—picture of ourselves.
We'll also discuss how processing data from the past helps us create truly new ideas, and when it's time to change these theories.
Our relationship with the brain is quite complicated. This is because the mind seems to lead a double life, being a source of both pride and shame. On the one hand, true miracles occur in the brain: this organ discovered penicillin, invented democracy, literature, and art, and conquered the earth, oceans, and sky.
On the other hand, the human mind is fragile. This same brain traps many of us in superstitions, prejudices, and biases, enslaving us to fringe movements, wild conspiracy theories, or—no less insidiously—casting us into a personal prison where our feelings, thoughts, and experiences transform the mind into a threatening or frightening place.
But this view of the world carries certain risks. When the brain formulates an incorrect theory about the world around us or ourselves, we become prone
to misperceptions and misunderstandings. We create an introspective theory of our own mind and who we are, creating an accurate—or inaccurate—picture of ourselves.
We'll also discuss how processing data from the past helps us create truly new ideas, and when it's time to change these theories.
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