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Your Brain Is a Time Machine : The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano (2017, Hardcover)

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"Time" is the most common noun in the English language yet philosophers and scientists don't agree about what time actually is or how to define it. Perhaps this is because the brain tells, represents and perceives time in multiple ways. Dean Buonomano investigates the relationship between the brain and time, looking at what time is, why it seems to speed up or slow down and whether our sense that time flows is an illusion. Buonomano presents his theory of how the brain tells time, and illuminates such concepts as free will, consciousness, space-time and relativity from the perspective of a neuroscientist. Drawing on physics, evolutionary biology and philosophy, he reveals that the brain's ultimate purpose may be to predict the future?and thus that your brain is a time machine.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393247945

ISBN-139780393247947

eBay Product ID (ePID)227515991

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameYour Brain Is a Time Machine : the Neuroscience and Physics of Time

Publication Year2017

SubjectNeuroscience, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Time, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaScience, Psychology, Medical

AuthorDean Buonomano

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight16.7 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-046898

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThis book awakened me to the possibility that the nature of time may very well come from a marriage between neuroscience and fundamental physics. Buonomano's writing is so clear and captivating that I felt like we were having a conversation at my favorite caf--I simply couldn't put it down., Full of delicious details... Reading Buonomano's book, it's hard not to marvel at how time and timekeeping pervade our existence., Dean Buonomano has a light touch and a sure hand in addressing complex scientific issues. Your Brain is a time Machine is filled with vivid examples of how time weaves its web in the physical world and in our brains... The book is a pleasure for anyone interested in the deepest questions about how the brain and the universe work. -- Chris Impey, author of Beyond This book awakened me to the possibility that the nature of time may very well come from a marriage between neuroscience and fundamental physics. Dean Buonomano provides astonishingly new insights. His writing is so clear and captivating that I felt like we were having a conversation at my favorite caf--I simply couldn't put it down. -- Stephon Alexander, author of The Jazz of Physics, Dean Buonomano has a light touch and a sure hand in addressing complex scientific issues. Your Brain is a time Machine is filled with vivid examples of how time weaves its web in the physical world and in our brains... The book is a pleasure for anyone interested in the deepest questions about how the brain and the universe work., Dean Buonomano's book is a revelation that proposes a radically new view of the brain in which the paramount function of neuronal circuits is to generate processes whose actions define time. Neuroscience needs a revolution before we can comprehend how a brain gives rise to a mind. Buonomano's proposal to understand the brain as a coupled set of processes playing out in time, to define time, may come to be seen as the start of that revolution., [Buonomano] treats the most complex topics with refreshing clarity.... [A] thoughtful and provocative exploration of time., Why does time seem to flow from moment to moment? It's a mystery because physics tells a different story: time simply is, a passive label on different parts of the universe. Dean Buonomano cooks a rich stew of ideas, from philosophy to neuroscience, to help understand this question, and thereby paints a clearer picture of our place in the physical world., Dean Buonomano has a light touch and a sure hand in addressing complex scientific issues. Your Brain Is a Time Machine is filled with vivid examples of how time weaves its web in the physical world and in our brains. A pleasure for anyone interested in the deepest questions about how the brain and the universe work., Dean Buonomano has a light touch and a sure hand in addressing complex scientific issues. Your Brain is a time Machine is filled with vivid examples of how time weaves its web in the physical world and in our brains. A pleasure for anyone interested in the deepest questions about how the brain and the universe work., It''s about time. A fascinating, engaging, and informative book about one of the deepest mysteries in science. What else can you ask for?, Buonomano has brought the study of time to center stage, shining a spotlight on how the brain constructs a sense without sensors. Drawing on insights from fields as diverse as neuroscience, theoretical physics, linguistics, and even public policy, Your Brain Is a Time Machine reveals how the enigmatic fourth dimension is essential to our existence and, indeed, fundamental to what makes us human. Through his engaging and lively writing, Buonomano invites the reader to join him on an extraordinary travel into the science of time. A trip not to be missed., Beautifully written, eloquently reasoned.... With lucidity and flair--not to mention an appealing avoidance of the reductionism and exaggeration to which many pop-neuroscientists are prone--Mr. Buonomano takes us off and running on an edifying scientific journey., Why does time seem to flow from moment to moment? Dean Buonomano cooks a rich stew of ideas, from philosophy to neuroscience, to help understand this question, and thereby paint a clearer picture of our place in the physical world., Buonomano lays out a wealth of complex concepts in an entertaining, digestible way.... [This] book will make you question your own perceptions and marvel at the fact that your brain is probably 'the best time machine you will ever own.', This book awakened me to the possibility that the nature of time may very well come from a marriage between neuroscience and fundamental physics. Dean Buonomano provides astonishingly new insights. His writing is so clear and captivating that I felt like we were having a conversation at my favorite caf--I simply couldn't put it down., It's about time. A fascinating, engaging, and informative book about one of the deepest mysteries in science. What else can you ask for?, Buonomano does for the neuroscience of time what Hawking did for the physics of time. The science of temporal perception is in the middle of a renaissance. Highly overdue, this is the best popular treatment of the latest research on your mind's clocks., This book awakened me to the possibility that the nature of time may very well come from a marriage between neuroscience and fundamental physics. Buonomano's writing is so clear and captivating that I felt like we were having a conversation at my favorite café--I simply couldn't put it down., Forget Doc Brown's DeLorean. Buonomano has discovered a more exciting--and real--time machine inside of every human head... Armchair scientists must make time for this excursion!, [Buonomano] lays out the latest, best theories about how we understand time, illuminating a fundamental aspect of being human.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal612.82

SynopsisIn Your Brain Is a Time Machine , brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell, and perceive, time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables "mental time travel"--simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. The brain was designed to navigate our continuously changing world by predicting what will happen and when . Buonomano combines neuroscience expertise with a far-ranging, multidisciplinary approach. With engaging style, he illuminates such concepts as consciousness, spacetime, and relativity while addressing profound questions that have long occupied scientists and philosophers alike: What is time? Is our sense of time's passage an illusion? Does free will exist, or is the future predetermined? In pursuing the answers, Buonomano reveals as much about the fascinating architecture of the human brain as he does about the intricacies of time itself. This virtuosic work of popular science leads to an astonishing realization: your brain is, at its core, a time machine., A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain., In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell, and perceive, time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables "mental time travel"--simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. The brain was designed to navigate our continuously changing world by predicting what will happen and when. Buonomano combines neuroscience expertise with a far-ranging, multidisciplinary approach. With engaging style, he illuminates such concepts as consciousness, spacetime, and relativity while addressing profound questions that have long occupied scientists and philosophers alike: What is time? Is our sense of time's passage an illusion? Does free will exist, or is the future predetermined? In pursuing the answers, Buonomano reveals as much about the fascinating architecture of the human brain as he does about the intricacies of time itself. This virtuosic work of popular science leads to an astonishing realization: your brain is, at its core, a time machine.

LC Classification NumberQP376.B8635 2017