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Vers une science de la vie mentale: Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 6 avril 2006 (Leçons inaugurales)
La cognition humaine obéit à de strictes lois, qui n'épargnent pas même les aspects les plus subjectifs de notre perception consciente. Je crois profondément à un renouveau du programme psychophysique de Fechner, Wundt, Ribot ou Piéron, qui, devenu « neuro-physique », viendrait s'ancrer au niveau neuronal. Nous avons l'immense chance de vivre un temps où les avancées conjointes de la psychologie et de la neuro-imagerie cognitives laissent entrevoir de rendre enfin visible, comme à crâne ouvert, l'invisible de la pensée.
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58 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 25, 2006
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August 23, 2019
Este libro no esta mal, me gusto mas otro que leí del mismo autor que se llama La consciencia en el cerebro. Este libro tiene como títulos que refieren a cuestiones genéricas pero bajo los cuales se explican cuestiones puntuales, es como si se hubiera curado el contenido que quedó fuera de otros libros y hubieran hecho un libro...
Así y todo cuenta cosas muy interesantes.
Así y todo cuenta cosas muy interesantes.
November 6, 2021
As some memes say, neuroscience and psychology "are sort of like the brain saying that it's the most impressive and intelligent thing that exists, whilst looking at the brain and realizing it still doesn't understand it..." Or something like that.
It's amazing how much we still don't know about how the brain, human or animal, works, but experimental psychology and technological advances in brain-mapping make it possible to continue to try.
Although at times this book gets a bit too technical for a reader who is not in the field of psychology or neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene does a pretty good job of breaking down some of the most elaborate and difficult concepts, at least enough to make the reader curious and look further into certain topics.
This book tackles so many questions that at some point I've asked myself, and it's funny how it sometimes sounds like the questionings of someone going through a psychedelic trip: how do we understand numbers? How do we understand words? Where in the brain is language processed, and is it the same for anyone regardless of what language they speak? And what about if they speak more than one language? How do we understand figures of speech? Why do we do some things automatically? Why does addiction happen? Is there such a thing as 'multi-tasking'? (Spoiler alert: the answer to that last one is NO; there's either 'doing one thing consciously at a time' or 'trying to do multiple things at once but half-assing them so much that you might as well not do any of them at all').
But the book also raises so many questions that are yet to be answered (or that at least cannot be answered in this book because there's either not an answer yet or because it would make this book much, much longer): why can't I get rid of my anxiety? Why do we procrastinate? How do I wrangle my ADD brain? Why do I sometimes walk around like a headless chicken when I'm talking on the phone?
Fortunately this book provides a very ample bibliography that might lead to finding the answers to those questions. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one asking myself these questions, and that there are experts with resources trying to find the answers, although sometimes I think I would like to be involved myself, either as a study subject, or even better, as an expert. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and decide to become an expert in some of these fields, be hands-on. But I'm not, so I can only read about it.
But it's comforting to know that these experts will not stop working until we have all the answers. Our brains will never not be curious about our brains. And I think that's a beautiful challenge.
It's amazing how much we still don't know about how the brain, human or animal, works, but experimental psychology and technological advances in brain-mapping make it possible to continue to try.
Although at times this book gets a bit too technical for a reader who is not in the field of psychology or neuroscience, Stanislas Dehaene does a pretty good job of breaking down some of the most elaborate and difficult concepts, at least enough to make the reader curious and look further into certain topics.
This book tackles so many questions that at some point I've asked myself, and it's funny how it sometimes sounds like the questionings of someone going through a psychedelic trip: how do we understand numbers? How do we understand words? Where in the brain is language processed, and is it the same for anyone regardless of what language they speak? And what about if they speak more than one language? How do we understand figures of speech? Why do we do some things automatically? Why does addiction happen? Is there such a thing as 'multi-tasking'? (Spoiler alert: the answer to that last one is NO; there's either 'doing one thing consciously at a time' or 'trying to do multiple things at once but half-assing them so much that you might as well not do any of them at all').
But the book also raises so many questions that are yet to be answered (or that at least cannot be answered in this book because there's either not an answer yet or because it would make this book much, much longer): why can't I get rid of my anxiety? Why do we procrastinate? How do I wrangle my ADD brain? Why do I sometimes walk around like a headless chicken when I'm talking on the phone?
Fortunately this book provides a very ample bibliography that might lead to finding the answers to those questions. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one asking myself these questions, and that there are experts with resources trying to find the answers, although sometimes I think I would like to be involved myself, either as a study subject, or even better, as an expert. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time and decide to become an expert in some of these fields, be hands-on. But I'm not, so I can only read about it.
But it's comforting to know that these experts will not stop working until we have all the answers. Our brains will never not be curious about our brains. And I think that's a beautiful challenge.
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