Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • A Universe Of Consciousness

    How Matter Becomes Imagination

    What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a full-scale theory of consciousness based on direct observation of the human brain in action. Their pioneering work, presented here ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge

    Burgeoning advancements in brain science are opening up new perspectives on how we acquire knowledge. Indeed, it is now possible to explore consciousness-the very center of human concern-by scientific means. In this illuminating book, Dr. Gerald M. Edelman offers a new theory of knowledge based on striking scientific findings about how the brain works. And he addresses the related compelling ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • Phi

    A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

    de Giulio Tononi ...
    This title is printed in full color throughout.From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of science as well.Galileo’s journey has three parts, each with a different guide. In the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Surfaces and Essences

    Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

    A revelatory foray into cognition and the dynamics of the mind.**“*****Surfaces and Essences *****warrants a place alongside Gödel, Escher, Bach and major recent treatments of human cognition. Analogy is not the endpoint of understanding, but its indispensable beginning.” –**ScienceAnalogy is the core of all thinking.This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer ... ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

    One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

    How Mind Emerged from Matter

    A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "Theory of Everything" that appears to be emerging includes everything but us: the feelings, meanings, consciousness, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Who's in Charge?

    Free Will and the Science of the Brain

    "Gazzaniga is a giant in cognitive neuroscience . . . [He] advances a fascinating argument that both limits and contextualizes brain research." —Forbes.comThe author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the "father of cognitive neuroscience." In his remarkable book, Who's in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

    An Existential Detective Story

    de Jim Holt ...
    “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page reviewTackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

    de Frans de Waal ...
    In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution.For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Social Conquest of Earth

    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

    The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

    de Nick Lane ...
    “Original and awe-inspiring . . . an exhilarating tour of some of the most profound and important ideas in biology.”—New ScientistWhere does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution’s history by describing its ten greatest inventions—from sex and warmth to death—resulting in a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Self Comes to Mind

    Constructing the Conscious Brain

    A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD