Your Brain is a Time Machine - The Neuroscience and Physics of Time (Buonomano Dean (UCLA))(Pevná vazba)

In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell, and perceive, time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables "mental time travel"--simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. The brain was designed to navigate our continuously changing world by predicting what will happen and when.Buonomano combines neuroscience expertise with a far-ranging, multidisciplinary approach. With engaging style, he illuminates
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