Who's in Charge? : Free Will and the Science of the Brain

from jpporter

This is an interesting, engaging discussion about the current state of Neuroscience and the study of the physical brain and its implications for philosophical issues involving free will, responsibility, the law, society, and ethics. Taking the reader from the position that what our brains do is p...

from chaosmogony

"We are people, not brains."That sums up the thrust of Gazzaniga's argument in "Who's in Charge?", adapted from his 2009 Gifford Lecture, a thorough and accessible look at trends in modern neuroscience -- and the physical determinism they seem to imply -- and the all-too-real feeling that we are ...

from vegetarian

Think originally about that in each of us which most makes each of us who we are.

from speljamr

What exactly is the I we think we are? Where does it come from, and is it really in charge? These are the questions tackled in this book, along with issues such as responsibility and how the current neuroscience applies to our society and the law. This is not a very long read, and there are other...

from dreamweaver529

An interesting study of the interplay between mind and brain. Predominantly through studying of patents who have had their corpus callosum severed, thus separating the hemispheres of the brain, the book exposes how our brains are organized and how the mind processes reality. While not an introduc...