From Brains to Consciousness?: Essays On the New Sciences of the Mind (Allen Lane Science S.) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140259651 ISBN 13: 9780140259650

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

The human brain is probably the most complex structure in the universe, yet we are slowly unravelling its mysteries. How does memory work? Can computers convincingly model our brains? How can the stuff inside our skulls create consciousness? Steven Rose has brought together an illustrious team of neuroscientists, psychologists, pharmocologists and philosophers to address these vital questions. Includes essays by Roger Penrose, Igor Aleksander, Richard Gregory, Mary Midgley and Susan Greenfield. 'Fascinating, instructive reading for the layperson...reading this book is certainly one way of maintaining an active brain' - Glasgow Herald

About this title

Synopsis:

These essays address issues emerging from the field of neuroscience, including: the possibility of artificial intelligence; the nature of schizophrenia; the problem of consciousness; the future of psychopharmacology; and the relationship between brain biochemistry and social behaviour.

About the Author:

Steven Rose is Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group at the Open University. Rose's previous books in Penguin include THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE (1966), NOT IN OUR GENES, with Richard Lewontin and Leon Kamin (1984) and LIFELINES (1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140259651
• ISBN 13: 9780140259650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Rose Steven