Free ebook : The Biology of Mind – M. Deric Bownds
The Biology of Mind is a fascinating and very readable book about neuroscience which has been made available for free online by the author. It’s based on lecture notes for a course that has recently been taught and provides a very nice introduction to a subject I knew little about but am very interested in.
You can find the online version here.
Downloadable versions have been made available at mobileread.
From the preface:
Until recently the study of mind, consciousness, and feelings has been a subject for philosophy and religion, outside the province of hard science. This has changed in just the past few years, as advances in anthropology, animal behavior, evolutionary theory, linguistics, molecular neurobiology, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience have brought us to the threshold of resolving questions that have occupied philosophers for millennia:
” How does the human brain generate a “self”?
” What is the nature of the narrative “I” that we experience in our heads?
” What is the relationship between reason and emotion?
” How do genetic and environmental factors interact to determine the structure of our brains?
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