The mind's past /
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Author / Creator: | Gazzaniga, Michael S. |
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Imprint: | Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 201 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11100199 |
ISBN: | 9780520925489 0520925483 0585031738 9780585031736 0520213203 9780520213203 0520224868 9780520224865 |
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Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? Michael S. Gazzaniga shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. By showing that the specific systems built into our brain do their work automatically and largely outside of our conscious awareness, Gazzaniga calls into question our everyday notions of self and reality. The implications of his ideas reach deeply into the nature of perception and memory, the profundity of human instinct, and the ways we construct who we are and how we fit into the world around us. Gazzaniga explains how the mind interprets data the brain has already processed, making "us" the last to know. He shows how what "we" see is frequently an illusion and not at all what our brain is perceiving. False memories become a part of our experience; autobiography is fiction. In exploring how the brain enables the mind, Gazzaniga points us toward one of the greatest mysteries of human evolution: how we become who we are. |
Other form: | Print version: Gazzaniga, Michael S. Mind's past. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998 0520213203 |
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