The Fall Of The Self: How The Unconscious Drives Our Actions
ISBN:
9780199298662 (0199298661)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Edition language: English
"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...
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...
Skąd taka ocena? Wychodzi na to, że nie wiadomo i nawet nie próbuję tego zrozumieć.
Is it really that hard for people to understand that there's a lot going on below any possible understanding of the consciousness? And I had a lot of trouble getting used to the introductory level of the text. Not being a neuroscientist, I still have a general understanding of how the brain works,...
Hay una cita muy familiar al principio del libro: There's someone in my head but it's not me. Esa fue mi primera impresión al leerlo, pero luego fui pensando en que todo eso que pasa en mi cerebro tras bambalinas solo es otra parte de mi que siempre ha estado ahí y siempre estara. Es bueno saber que...