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The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
Ecco
July 2008
On Sale: June 24, 2008
464 pages
ISBN: 0060892889
EAN: 9780060892883
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how
best to understand the human condition by examining the
biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our
species within the social context of our lives. What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans
so unique? In his widely accessible style, Michael
Gazzaniga looks to a broad range of studies to pinpoint the
change that made us thinking, sentient humans, different
from our predecessors. Neuroscience has been fixated on the life of the
psychological self for the past fifty years, focusing on
the brain systems underlying language, memory, emotion, and
perception. What it has not done is consider the stark
reality that most of the time we humans are thinking about
social processes, comparing ourselves to and estimating the
intentions of others. In Human, Gazzaniga explores a number
of related issues, including what makes human brains
unique, the importance of language and art in defining the
human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and
even artificial intelligence.
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