Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
分類: 图书,进口原版,Health, Mind & Body(身心健康),Psychology & Counseling(心理问题与咨询),Neuropsychology,
品牌: Giulio Tononi
基本信息出版社:Pantheon (2012年8月7日)精装:384页正文语种:英语ISBN:030790721X条形码:9780307907219商品重量:567 gASIN:030790721X亚马逊热销商品排名:图书商品里排第1,431,212名 (查看图书商品销售排行榜)您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, an exploration of consciousness unlike any other: the latest science framed in a dazzlingly imaginative, lavishly illustrated narrative.
We would have to go back toGödel, Escher, Bachto find even the hint of a precedent for this innovative, genre-bending book in which we accompany an elderly scientist, Galileo, on a journey in search of consciousness. His journey has three parts, each with a different guide. In the first part, accompanied by a scientist who resembles Francis Crick, he learns why certain parts of the brain are important and not others, and why consciousness fades with sleep. In the second part, when his companion seems to be named Alturi (Galileo is hard of hearing; his companion's name is actually Alan Turing), he sees how what we know about consciousness might coalesce into a theory of consciousness. In the third part, accompanied by an bearded man who can only be Charles Darwin, he meditates on how consciousness is an evolving, developing, ever-deepening awareness of ourselves in history and culture.媒体推荐“This wonderful book reads like a popcorn novel but informs like a primer on consciousness and where it comes from. In turn exciting, challenging, and thought-provoking, Tononi’s marvelous imagination explores the origin of thought, sensation, and feeling. Learning about the difference between the cerebrum and cerebellum doesn’t sound like fun, but here you encounter them amidst fat friars shouting in vulgar Latin, nymphs of radiant beauty, and a mysterious juggler on a unicycle. I’ve always taken pride in being a conscious, sentient being; after reading Phi, I’m beginning to understand what it means when I say that!” –Leonard Mlodinow
“You may or may not endorse Giulio Tononi’s views on how the brain generates consciousness, but you can certainly agree that his book is a garden of intellectual delights.” –Antonio Damasio, author ofSelf Comes to MindandDescartes’ Error