David Eagleman
I'm a neuroscientist during the day and a writer at night. As a believer in the endeavor of popular science, I travel frequently to give public lectures. It has been an incredible pleasure to meet warm, funny, like-minded readers everywhere I visit.
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I'm a neuroscientist during the day and a writer at night. As a believer in the endeavor of popular science, I travel frequently to give public lectures. It has been an incredible pleasure to meet warm, funny, like-minded readers everywhere I visit.
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"Experimentation and transformation in both art and science spring from the same root - to understand, to encapsulate the world. This is why I've ever found reductionism (and scientism) drearily limiting and worthily pompous - that utilitarian speculation over what art 'is for', that misapprehension...
Read as Дэвид Иглмен - Мозг: Ваша личная история.Q:В результате у них сформировалось «неизбирательное дружелюбие». Нельсон рассказывает, что, когда он вошел в комнату, его окружили маленькие дети, совершенно незнакомые, – и все хотели забраться ему на руки, сесть на колени или взять за руку и пойти ...
I think I enjoyed this book much more the way I read it. That is, I would read a couple of stories and leave it alone for days or weeks (as I tend to do with other books) and then I read a couple more chapters. In this book's case it made it more enjoyable.I loved most of the stories, although I adm...
I had high hopes for Incognito stemming from the introduction's daunting claim that this book would revolutionize readers' understanding of the human mind. It fails to fulfill its lofty promise, though. Instead of evidence sorely needed to support its thesis, Incognito relies on a nauseatingly vaude...
There's better I say about SUM beyond that it is an amazing, thought provoking piece of work which draws on both spirituality and metaphysics (with a dash of religion, too) to comprise it's work. What we have here is 40 very short stories, each relating a conceptual idea of Heaven or another form ...