The Future of the Brain
The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10019530893X
- ISBN-139780195308938
- Goodreads716049
- Library of Congress Control Number2009502249
- Better World Books9780195308938
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- Open LibraryOL7392797M
Classifications
- LCCRC341
- LCCQP376 .R679 2006
Description
Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what itmeans to be human. In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience may help us understand the human brain--including consciousness--and to what extent cutting edge technologies should have the power to mend or manipulate the mind. Rose first offers a panoramic look at what we now know aboutthe brain, from its three-billion-year evolution, to its astonishingly rapid development in the embryo, to the miraculous process of infant development (how a brain becomes a human). More important, he shows what all this science can--and cannot--tell us about the human condition...
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