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The mind's past / Michael S. Gazzaniga.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520925489
  • 0520925483
  • 0585031738
  • 9780585031736
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mind's past.DDC classification:
  • 612.8/2 21
LOC classification:
  • QP360
NLM classification:
  • 1998 F-476
  • WL 103.5
Other classification:
  • 77.50
Online resources:
Contents:
The fictional self. -- Brain construction. -- The brain knows before you do. -- Seeing is believing. -- The shadow knows. -- Real memories, phony memories. -- The value of interpreting the past.
Summary: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? Michael S. Gazzaniga shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. By showing that the specific systems built into our brain do their work automatically and largely outside of our conscious awareness, Gazzaniga calls into question our everyday notions of self and reality. The implications of his ideas reach deeply into the nature of perception and memory, the profundity of human instinct, and the ways we construct who we are and how we fit into the world around us. Gazzaniga explains how the mind interprets data the brain has already processed, making "us" the last to know. He shows how what "we" see is frequently an illusion and not at all what our brain is perceiving. False memories become a part of our experience; autobiography is fiction. In exploring how the brain enables the mind, Gazzaniga points us toward one of the greatest mysteries of human evolution: how we become who we are
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index.

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The fictional self. -- Brain construction. -- The brain knows before you do. -- Seeing is believing. -- The shadow knows. -- Real memories, phony memories. -- The value of interpreting the past.

Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? Michael S. Gazzaniga shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. By showing that the specific systems built into our brain do their work automatically and largely outside of our conscious awareness, Gazzaniga calls into question our everyday notions of self and reality. The implications of his ideas reach deeply into the nature of perception and memory, the profundity of human instinct, and the ways we construct who we are and how we fit into the world around us. Gazzaniga explains how the mind interprets data the brain has already processed, making "us" the last to know. He shows how what "we" see is frequently an illusion and not at all what our brain is perceiving. False memories become a part of our experience; autobiography is fiction. In exploring how the brain enables the mind, Gazzaniga points us toward one of the greatest mysteries of human evolution: how we become who we are

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