作者:
V. S. Ramachandran
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Sandra Blakeslee 出版社: William Morrow Paperbacks 副标题: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind 出版年: 1999-8-18 页数: 352 定价: USD 16.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780688172176
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the ...
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases: A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial. A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be "wired" for religious experience? A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time. Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the "big questions" about consciousness and the self.
V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., is professor and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, and is adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California. One of the world's foremost brain researchers, he has received many scientific honors, including a gold medal from the Australian Natio...
V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., is professor and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, and is adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California. One of the world's foremost brain researchers, he has received many scientific honors, including a gold medal from the Australian National University and a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He gave the "Decade of the Brain" lecture at the Silver Jubilee meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, and his work has been featured in major media. He lives with his family in Del Mar, California.
Sandra Blakeslee is an award-winning science writer for The New York Times. For the last ten years, her reporting specialty has been neuroscience. She is the coauthor, with Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D., of two books: the national bestseller Second Chances and The Good Marriage. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
How deeply does the patient believe his own denials or confabulations? Could it be some sort of surface facade or even an attempt at malingering? To answer this question, I devised a simple experiment.
I placed a large cocktail tray supporting six plastic glasses half filled with water in front of patients with denial syndrome. Now if I asked you to reach out and grab such a tray, you would place one hand under either side of the tray and proceed to raise it. But if you had one hand tied behind your back, you would naturally go for the middleof the tray-its center of gravity-and lift from there. When I tested stroke patients who were paralyzed on one side of their body but did not sufffer from denial, their non paralyzed hand went straight for the middle of the tray, as expected.
When I tr... (查看原文)
The most obvious fact about existence is your sense of being a single, unified self "in charge" of your destiny; so obvious, in fact, that you rarely pause to think about it. And yet Dr. Aglioti's experiment and observations on patients like Diane suggest that there is in fact another being inside you that goes about his or her business without your knowledge or awareness. And, as it turns out, there is not just one such zombie but a multitude of them inhabiting your brain. If so, your concept of a single "I" or "self" inhabiting your brain may be simply an illusion -- albeit one that allows you to organize your life more efficiently, gives you a sense of purpose and helps you interact with others. ... (查看原文)
“For your entire life, you've been walking around assuming that your "self is anchored to a single body that remains stable and permanent at least until death. Indeed, the "loyalty" of your self to yo...“For your entire life, you've been walking around assuming that your "self is anchored to a single body that remains stable and permanent at least until death. Indeed, the "loyalty" of your self to your own body is so axiomatic that you never even pause to think about it, let alone question it."(展开)
“For your entire life, you've been walking around assuming that your "self is anchored to a single body that remains stable and permanent at least until death. Indeed, the "loyalty" of your self to yo...“For your entire life, you've been walking around assuming that your "self is anchored to a single body that remains stable and permanent at least until death. Indeed, the "loyalty" of your self to your own body is so axiomatic that you never even pause to think about it, let alone question it."(展开)
对body vs brain, sensation vs external objects, what is self, what does it mean to will an action, the features of qualia的讨论都非常精彩，触及很多哲学层面对于人的思考。前半本几个令人印象深刻的地方，Wilder Penfield实验使我想到特德姜的《呼吸》里面拆解大脑的片段，ho...对body vs brain, sensation vs external objects, what is self, what does it mean to will an action, the features of qualia的讨论都非常精彩，触及很多哲学层面对于人的思考。前半本几个令人印象深刻的地方，Wilder Penfield实验使我想到特德姜的《呼吸》里面拆解大脑的片段，how/what pathway一章层层递进最是精彩，把左右脑分别比作left-wing revolutionary that generates paradigm shifts和die-hard conservative that clings to the status quo很有意思。(展开)
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0 有用 大派 2013-08-02 16:17:45
非常酷和有趣的书
3 有用 刘未鹏pongba 2011-07-18 02:50:26
这大概是我读的最久的一本了，断断续续读了大半年。期间Ramachandran另一本《The Tell-Tale Brain》都读完了。。不过，Ramachandran的这本书确实是他最经典的一本，难怪Richard Dawkins称Rama为“神经科学界的马可波罗”
0 有用 Quincy_wang 2013-06-07 13:39:23
Ramachandran的书直接买直接看就行了。为什么这么说？看一下该人的wikipedia页面上的介绍。
0 有用 术士Gandalf 2022-04-30 04:14:37
“For your entire life, you've been walking around assuming that your "self is anchored to a single body that remains stable and permanent at least until death. Indeed, the "loyalty" of your self to yo... “For your entire life, you've been walking around assuming that your "self is anchored to a single body that remains stable and permanent at least until death. Indeed, the "loyalty" of your self to your own body is so axiomatic that you never even pause to think about it, let alone question it." (展开)
0 有用 极冷极闲之人 2012-05-05 10:04:20
没有拗口的学术语言，通过一个个的案例分析，作者为大家上了一堂非常有趣的神经科学科普课。
0 有用 小毛巾 2023-01-23 21:44:43 浙江
好像在画未知世界的地图 每个病例都是我们了解未知世界的线索
0 有用 barrstroud 2022-09-03 22:00:05 瑞士
Zombie
0 有用 术士Gandalf 2022-04-30 04:14:37
“For your entire life, you've been walking around assuming that your "self is anchored to a single body that remains stable and permanent at least until death. Indeed, the "loyalty" of your self to yo... “For your entire life, you've been walking around assuming that your "self is anchored to a single body that remains stable and permanent at least until death. Indeed, the "loyalty" of your self to your own body is so axiomatic that you never even pause to think about it, let alone question it." (展开)
0 有用 purlandplain 2021-08-31 01:08:52
对body vs brain, sensation vs external objects, what is self, what does it mean to will an action, the features of qualia的讨论都非常精彩，触及很多哲学层面对于人的思考。前半本几个令人印象深刻的地方，Wilder Penfield实验使我想到特德姜的《呼吸》里面拆解大脑的片段，ho... 对body vs brain, sensation vs external objects, what is self, what does it mean to will an action, the features of qualia的讨论都非常精彩，触及很多哲学层面对于人的思考。前半本几个令人印象深刻的地方，Wilder Penfield实验使我想到特德姜的《呼吸》里面拆解大脑的片段，how/what pathway一章层层递进最是精彩，把左右脑分别比作left-wing revolutionary that generates paradigm shifts和die-hard conservative that clings to the status quo很有意思。 (展开)
0 有用 SawHorse 2021-01-11 04:26:17
认知科学-有些玄幻，提出了认知科学三步理论：1.能够接受不会改变的外界2.能够产出可以改变的回应3.有短时记忆可以留给大脑时间做出反应。