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Carregando... Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Timede Dean Buonomano
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A leading neuroscientist presents a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the mind, arguing that the human brain's complex system constructs our sense of chronological flow in ways that are essential to evolution and everyday survival--Publisher's description.
"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 such concepts as consciousness, spacetime, and relativity while addressing profound questions that have long occupied scientists and philosophers alike: What is time? Is our sense of time's passage an illusion? Does free will exist, or is the future predetermined? In pursuing the answers, Buonomano reveals as much about the fascinating architecture of the human brain as he does about the intricacies of time itself. This virtuosic work of popular science leads to an astonishing realization: your brain is, at its core, a time machine"--Publisher's description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Many animals have the ability to learn from experience, and to project how to hunt, hide from predators, and other things necessary for higher animals to survive in their relatively complex worlds. Humans are the only animals whom we are certain can reflect on the past, plan for the less immediate future, and imagine things that don't have a lot of connection to the real, immediate world. The list of animals whom we have some evidence may share this ability has expanded over my lifetime, but it still doesn't seem to be a common ability.
With our minds, we can in some sense travel in time.
Yet we don't really understand time. We can't really describe time or how we move in it. Unlike space, physically, we can only travel in one direction in time--into the future. All of our words for motion in time are borrowed from our words for motion in space. Over the last century, we have learned that time isn't separate from space; spacetime is one thing.
We don't really have a full understanding of how it works, as whole, but especially the time component.
And yet, we can dwell in the past, and imagine the future.
Buonomano discusses both the physics of time, and how our minds manipulate time. He can't do that without equations, and though he does try to limit that, and to explain the equations clearly, it's one of the less accessible books on either physics or the mind that I've tackled. Still, I did enjoy it, and do feel that I learned from it.
If you find the math more accessible than I do, you'll get more out of it than I did. Do consider giving it a try.
I bought this audiobook. (