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From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
Pi Press
August 2004
On Sale: July 23, 2004
208 pages
ISBN: 0131486861
EAN: 9780131486867
Hardcover
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A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness is made up of five
investigations of the greatest mysteries of the brain. The
first chapter shows how amputees feel pain in limbs they no
longer have as it introduces the great revolution of our
age: neuroscience. The second chapter walks through how what
we see determines our thoughts, and demonstrates the
counterintuitive point that believing is in fact seeing. The
third chapter takes a leap beyond cutting edge science to
audaciously set out a general theory of beauty, explaining
why, the world over, cultures have fundamentally similar
notions of what is attractive. The fourth chapter explores
the bizarre world of synesthetes, people who see colors in
numbers, textures in smells, sounds in sights, and flavors
in sounds. Finally, V. S. Ramachandran, one of the foremost
neuroscientists in the world today, sums up the implications
of the revolution in our understanding of consciousness to
make a fascinating argument about our essential sense of
self and its distributed nature.
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