Authors: V.S. Ramachandran
ISBN-13: 9780131872783, ISBN-10: 0131872788
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
How can people come to believe that their poodle is an impostor? Or see colors in numbers? Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, said of V. S. Ramachandran's first book, "The patients he describes are fascinating, and his experiments on them are both simple and ingenious." With his unique energy and style Ramachandran now shares his insights into the mind from such everyday human experiences as pain, sight, and the appreciation of beauty to the ultimate philosophical conundrums of consciousness.
1 | A pain in the brain | 1 |
2 | Believing is seeing | 24 |
3 | The artful brain | 40 |
4 | Purple numbers and sharp cheese | 60 |
5 | Neuroscience - the new philosophy | 83 |