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In this technology-driven age, ita (TM)s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of artists a " a p...
In this technology-driven age, ita (TM)s tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of artists a " a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists a " Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the braina (TM)s malleability; how the French chef Escoffier identified umami (the fifth taste); how CA(c)zanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language a " a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists. Ita (TM)s the ultimate tale of art trumping science. More broadly, Lehrer shows that therea (TM)s a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and this is what art knows better than science. An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to brilliant effect.
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于哥伦比亚大学主修神经学,在诺贝尔生理学或医学奖获得者埃里克·坎德尔(Eric Kandel)的实验室里做过有关记忆的生物学研究实验。
牛津大学罗兹学者(Rhodes scholar),关注20世纪的文学艺术,对艺术与科学的关系进行了深入研究。
《连线》杂志特约编辑,《纽约客》杂志长期撰稿人,《华尔街日报》专栏作家。
畅销书《想象》(Imagine:How Creativity Works)作者。
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艺术家简介+神经科学科普:故作大名,如同鸡肋
科学可以被看作是“认知”,艺术有关于“感知”,有趣的是,两者皆落在一个“知”字。知,无非是信息罢了。
科学可以被看作是“认知”,艺术有关于“感知”,有趣的是,两者皆落在一个“知”字。知,无非是信息罢了。
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0 有用 宝塔糖 2011-09-02 11:14:33
神经科学角度?!
0 有用 波多野丽猪 2011-10-21 11:35:51
大半在老掉牙的讲各个作家。四星给一小部分八卦
0 有用 波多野丽猪 2011-10-21 11:35:51
大半在老掉牙的讲各个作家。四星给一小部分八卦
0 有用 宝塔糖 2011-09-02 11:14:33
神经科学角度?!