Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self - Hardcover

Feinberg, Todd E.

 
9780195136258: Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 019513625X ISBN 13: 9780195136258
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

How does the brain, an organ composed of billions of individual cells, create the subjective sense of a unified self? And where is the self located in the brain? Here, the author describes his search, from medical school through his career as a psychiatrist and neurologist, for answers to these questions. The result is a work that explores the fundamental relationship between the self and the brain. Beginning with vignettes of patients who have neurological perturbations of the self, Feinberg gives an account of how the human brain functions - and malfunctions - in people with psychiatric and neurological disorders. In doing so he presents a theory of the self that links the workings of the brain with unique features of the mind, such as meaning, purpose and being. Feinberg argues that computers will never be conscious or have selves because the self and the mind are unique constituents of the life of the individual.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Todd E. Feinberg, M.D. is Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Chief of the Betty and Morton Yarmon Division of Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
019513625X
ISBN 13 
9780195136258
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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