Beyond the Conscious Mind

Beyond the Conscious Mind
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781489945334
ISBN-13 : 1489945334
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Book Synopsis Beyond the Conscious Mind by : Thomas R. Blakeslee

Download or read book Beyond the Conscious Mind written by Thomas R. Blakeslee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning work of Roger Sperry revolutionized our understanding of human consciousness by proving that separate thinking and knowledge could exist in the left and right halves of the brain. Now, popular science writer Thomas Blakeslee - author of the highly acclaimed The Right Brain - takes us to a new level of understanding based on the theory of neural Darwinism by Gerald Edelman, another Nobel Prize winner. Blakeslee explains that our neurons spontaneously organize into hundreds of groups called modules that compete to respond to every situation in our lives - from reading this paragraph to falling in love. A vast preponderance of this activity operates outside of our conscious awareness.


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