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Also by Nancy C. Andreasen:

The Creating Brain, December 2005
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A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, August 2004
Hardcover

A BRIEF TOUR OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
By: Nancy C. Andreasen

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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