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Your brain is a time machine

Name: Your brain is a time machine
Author: Dean Buonomano

Dean Buonomano

19 May 2017

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Book Synopsis

"Time" is the most common noun in the English language yet philosophers and scientists don't agree about what time actually is or how to define it. Perhaps this is because the brain tells, represents and perceives time in multiple ways.Dean Buonomano investigates the relationship between the brain and time, looking at what time is, why it seems to speed up or slow down and whether our sense that time flows is an illusion. Buonomano presents his theory of how the brain tells time, and illuminates such concepts as free will, consciousness, space-time and relativity from the perspective of a neuroscientist. Drawing on physics, evolutionary biology and philosophy, he reveals that the brain's ultimate purpose may be to predict the future-and thus that your brain is a time machine.

About The Author

Dean Buonomano is a professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA and a leading theorist on the neuroscience of time. His previous book, Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780393247947
Format: Hardback
Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company, (19 May 2017)
Number of Pages: 293
Weight: 472 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 244 x 163 x 30 mm
Categories:: Neurosciences Time Chronology Systems And Standards