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The Secret Life of the Mind
- How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A vast yet compact view of cognitive neuroscience, a groundbreaking, personal and comprehensive guide into understanding our thoughts.
In the last 20 years, Mariano Sigman has journeyed to the core of the brain, an organ formed by nearly an infinity of neurons that manufacture how we perceive, reason, feel, dream and communicate.
After more than two decades of research, he has zoomed out from a thorough excursion to the neurons to seeing the brain from afar, where thoughts begin to take shape. And at this point, where psychology meets neuroscience, The Secret Life of the Mind combines the astonishing work of biologists, physicists, mathematicians, psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, engineers, philosophers and medical doctors - not to forget cooks, magicians, musicians, chess players, writers and artists. It is an astonishing synthesis of a life's expertise on the edge of science, for fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Looking into how we forge ideas in our first days of life, how we shape the decisions that define us, why we dream and how years and years of formal and informal education change our brains, this book explores how we begin to understand even the smallest things that make up who and what we are.
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- Peter Bondy
- 12-06-2017
Fascinating, remarkable, insightful.
What a fantastic listen this is. It is so crammed full of information and covers such a broad range of topics I will defiantly need to listen several times.
And beyond purely information, Sigman interprets clinical research, both his and others, to give a truly comprehensive insight into current understanding of how our brain works and why we behave the way we do.
And still further, there are philosophical issues contemplated like recreational drug use and the meaning of "normal".
Me only disappointment with the book, and why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars , is that it is too short. There was so much more detail I wanted to hear about and so many topics are cut a little short.
The narration is very good and instils a lot of meaning and is neat faultless.
I can't imagine anyone interested in how our minds work and why we behave and think the way we do not being truly entertained and fascinated by this book.
Highly recommended.
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