Secrets of the Mind: A Tale of Discovery and Mistaken by A.G. Cairns-Smith

By A.G. Cairns-Smith

Written in a provocative, witty, and hugely available type, this isn't just a perfect common creation to the vital questions of attention and mind technology, but in addition a solution to a couple of them. the writer -- famous Glaswegian chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith -- believes our emotions and sensations usually are not easily replacement descriptions of neural occasions yet have themselves advanced and feature actual results within the mind in addition to actual reasons. secrets and techniques of the brain portrays a imaginative and prescient of the area because it might grow to be obvious by means of a destiny technological know-how. Sand, sea water, air, and the atoms from which such fabrics are made at the moment are good understood by way of technological know-how, however the related can't be stated of our own emotions, our sensations and feelings. technological know-how tells us that those too has to be varieties of quantum strength in the event that they developed, but is just now commencing to clarify how.

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