The social brain: discovering the networks of the mind pdf

Michael S. Gazzaniga (nato il 12 dicembre 1939) è professore di psicologia presso l'Università della California, a Santa Barbara negli Stati Uniti, dove dirige il nuovo SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. È uno dei principali ricercatori nelle neuroscienze cognitive, lo studio delle basi neurali della mente. È membro dell'American Academy of Arts & Sciences, dell'Institute of Medicine e della National Academy of Sciences.

The social brain: discovering the networks of the mind pdf da Michael Gazzaniga

THIS IS A STORY about a scientific discovery, about its evolution and ultimately its effect on m y personal understanding of social process. Looking back over the last twenty-five years, I see how little we can foretell our future. From personal habits to scientific pursuits, our year-to-year endeavors change in ways that are totally unpredictable. What do not change are initial unanswered questions and, for me, those centered o n how brain science might address problems of personal consciousness and through those a wider understanding of social processes. Some highly intelligent people can marvel over the elucidation of a phenom- enon and are quite happy to leave it hanging in a factual capsule. Others are plagued with the secondary question of how a fact relates to a value, or t o a personal understanding of life. While most scientific facts do not directly relate to broader social realities, some do. I think I have c o m e across such connections, which is one reason for my writing this book.