The Cerebral Code
Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
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- Paperback
262 pages
- Release Date
2 March 1998
Summary
The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can’t see it when you are awake, just as you can’t see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin’s is a theory for what goes on, hidde…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262531542 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262531542 |
| Author: | William H. Calvin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 262 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 2 March 1998 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | MIT Press |
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“Bill Calvin writes with elegance, economy, and authority. In TheCerebral Code, he has solidly embedded his ideas in experimentalneurophysiology and neuropharmacology, deriving from his decades in thelaboratory. He explores the ramifications of his insights into a widerange of cerebral functions, such as sleep, dreaming, awareness, problemssolving, creative thinking, and the dynamics of nerve cell assemblies thatmake consciousness possible. Calvin has written primarily for hiscolleagues in neuroscience, as well as for lay readers. I believe he willachieve his aim, by recounting in adequate detail the basic concepts fromwhich he is reasoning, and thereafter exploring ideas and issues that hisreductionstically minded colleagues have largely ignored.” Walter J. Freeman, Professor of the Graduate School, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley “[A] wide-ranging and innovative theory linking the neural structureof the cortex to thought, language, andconsciousness… stunningly thought provoking.” Richard Cooper , The Times Higher Education Supplement
About The Author
William H. Calvin
William H. Calvin is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. His books include The Cerebral Code (MIT Press, 1996).
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