Introducing Mind and Brain: A Graphic Guide
By Angus Gellatly and Oscar Zarate
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How do emotions affect your basic decision making? Why do certain smells prompt long-forgotten memories, and what makes us suddenly self-conscious?
How does the biological organ, the brain, give rise to all of the thoughts in your head – enable you to think, to feel, to be conscious and aware – to have ‘a mind’?
Introducing Mind and Brain explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision. It traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging.
Clearly explained by Professor of Psychology Angus Gellatly and award-winning artist Oscar Zarate, they invite you to take a fresh look at the nature of mind, consciousness and personal identity.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5perfect for my ADD instilled generation. this not only has brief important quick information info info switch but it has amazing graphics, just like a graphic novel just very British and very modern.its a brill and easy way to learn important things 'about your grey matter'. TAKES ABOUT A HALF HOUR TO READ.a quote: the epic poems of Homer in the 8th century B.C. are Europe's earliest substantial pieces of writing. Amazingly, these works scarcely refer to what we could call"The Mind". Homer's vocabulary does not include mental terms such as "think", "decide", "believe", "doubt" or "desire". The characters in the stories do not decide to do anything. They have no free will....The Greeks gave us a mentalistic psychology full of words like feel, think, want and decide. This became our common sense or folk psychology. But is it adequate for present day purposes? How well do the metaphors of mind and self map onto our knowledge of how the brain works? these questions lie at the heart of this book."my quip: Hence why my mom thinks philosophy is a waste of time because she thinks its something that was just assigned to us and shaped our way of thinking but isn't the true answer to the human mind or purpose of life or pysche. Spirtuality is because sprituality has you connect with yourself and your surroundings personally, it doesn't get so caught up in words. Or does it?