The activity of the brain is not available to us, but we nevertheless usually rely on our head. How is this possible? Explains the British neurophysiologist, publicist and character in his own book, Chris Frith.
The activity of the brain is not available to us, but we nevertheless usually rely on our head. How is this possible? Explains the British neurophysiologist, publicist and character in his own book, Chris Frith. The new book in the Elements series is about how our brain, its structure and the processes taking place in it determine our mental structure, perception of the material world and relationships with other people. The author, with great passion, undertakes to prove that fellow scientists are unfair, sending representatives of the «inexact» science of psychology to the very last place in the academic hierarchy. With the help of fascinating experiments, amusing pictures and cases from the lives of patients with various forms of brain disorders, Chris Frith shows that our ideas about our own consciousness have little in common with reality: even “my knowledge of my own body and how it interacts with the environment the world, are indirectly obtained and unreliable. The brain hides a lot of such information from me, and invents a lot. Proof of? Phantom limbs or even a third hand, a picture of a decision being made on the scanner monitor, ahead of the realization of this decision, as well as the experimentally proven impossibility of tickling oneself.
Corpus, Astrel, 335 p.