Splendours and Miseries of the Brain
Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness
(Sprache: Englisch)
In Splendors and Miseries of the Brain, leading neurobiologistSemir Zeki, explores the huge price humans pay, in terms ofhappiness, for the enormously elegant and efficient machinery ofthe brain.
The book has two main interrelated themes.
The book has two main interrelated themes.
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In Splendors and Miseries of the Brain, leading neurobiologistSemir Zeki, explores the huge price humans pay, in terms ofhappiness, for the enormously elegant and efficient machinery ofthe brain.
The book has two main interrelated themes.
The book has two main interrelated themes.
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The brain is an evolutionary triumph of neural engineering. Its capacity to seek knowledge and form generalized concepts is boundless. In this ground-breaking new study, Semir Zeki explores the enormously elegant and efficient machinery of the brain to analyze its products in creative disciplines, and discover whether or not this intricate system brings different solutions to bear in solving problems in disparate fields.Splendors and Miseries of the Brain, which is derived from Balzac's novel of the same name, delves into the brain's key functions of obtaining knowledge and forming concepts about the world. While these functions have been more thoroughly documented in neurobiology's traditional disciplines -physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology, mathematics, and computer science to name but a few - Zeki goes beyond these fields to scientifically study the products of the brain in literature, music, art, and other fields. By studying these fields, Zeki shows that we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions and its common processes. He also examines the heavy price to be paid in terms of human happiness that comes with the exquisite capacity of the brain, and shows how misery can ultimately be turned to advantage, due to its intimate link to creativity.
Splendors and Miseries of the Brain examines the elegant and efficient machinery of the brain, showing that by studying music, art, literature, and love, we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions. The book, whose title is derived from the novel of Balzac entitled Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, tries to show that there is a huge price to pay, in terms of human happiness, for the enormously elegant and efficient machinery of the brain.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Splendours and Miseries of the Brain “
Acknowledgements.Introduction.
Part I. Abstraction and the Brain.
1. Abstraction.
2. The Brain and Its Concepts.
3. Inherited Brain Concepts.
4. The Distributed Knowledge-Acquiring System of the Brain.
5. The Acquired Synthetic Brain Concepts.
6. The Synthetic Brain Concept and the Platonic Ideal.
7. Creativity and the Source of Perfection in the Brain.
Part II. Brain Concepts and Ambiguity.
8. Ambiguity in the Brain and in Art.
9. Processing and Perceptual Sites in the Brain.
10. From Unambiguous to Ambiguous Knowledge.
11. Higher Levels of Ambiguity.
Part III. Unachievable Brain Concepts.
Introduction.
12. Michelangelo and the non-finito.
13. Paul Cézanne and the Unfinished.
14. Unfinished Art in Literature.
Part VI. Brain Concepts of Love.
Conte By Arthur Rimbaud, in English and in French.
15. The Brain's Concepts of Love.
16. The Neural Correlates of Love.
17. Brain Concepts of Unity and Annihilation in Love.
18. Sacred and Profane.
19. The Metamorphosis of the Brain Concept of Love in Dante.
20. Wagner and Tristan und Isolde.
21. Thomas Mann and Death in Venice.
22. A neurobiological analysis of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents
Autoren-Porträt von Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki is a visual neurobiologist in the Department of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. Zeki has pioneered the study of the primate visual brain and furthered research on how affective states are generated by visual inputs. He has published extensively in his field, including the books Inner Vision: an Exploration of Art and the Brain (1999) and A Vision of the Brain (Wiley-Blackwell, 1993), and has also co-authored a book with the late French painter Balthus, entitled La Quête de l'essentiel (1995).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Semir Zeki
- 2008, 1. Auflage, 240 Seiten, Maße: 23,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1405185589
- ISBN-13: 9781405185585
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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"This is going to lead to a new way of writing about the arts, and a new audience for certain kinds of science at the same time. (Start The Week, Radio 4, November 2008)
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"'Courageous and carefully considered ... Zeki's book is wide in its sympathies and sources, and it deserves attention as part of a fascinating enquiry set to continue for many years to come." (Brain, November 2009)"Set ... quite apart from the snappiness of most contemporary science-writing ... the book thinks hard, feels warmly and puts out provocative suggestions." (London Review of Books, October 2009)
"I enjoyed reading this book and appreciated the attempt of the author to bridge the expansive chasm between experimental result on visual sensory input and the intimate human experiences for which we all strive." (The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, September 2009)
"Zeki's book has a beautiful and enigmatic cover and title. Zeki explores the unachievable through the works of artists and writers, concluding with Freud's Civilisation and its Discontents. Counsellors with a background both in neuroscience and an interest in the arts will find it a fascinating read." (Therapy Today, September 2009)
"An exuberant read." (Times Higher Education, April 2009)
"The book offers a glimpse into the physiological, neurological and emotional mechanisms of the most profound human part of our experience." (Yoga and Health, February 2009)
"This is a brave and unusual book what you are trying to do is look at the detailed neuroarchitecture of the brain, your particular specialty is how the brain sees (vision), and then apply it to a wider range of cultural ideas. I loved this book." (Andrew Marr, Start The Week, Radio 4, November 2008)
"What was once dangerous territory is now the hottest theme in brain research. the subtitle of Semir Zeki's excellent new book is Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness ... .One of the world's leading neurophysiologist [Zeki] has turned to brain imaging to explore matters as seemingly outside brain science's territory as beauty in literature and art - and even
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'romantic love.'" (Guardian, December 2008)
"This is going to lead to a new way of writing about the arts, and a new audience for certain kinds of science at the same time. (Start The Week, Radio 4, November 2008)
"This is going to lead to a new way of writing about the arts, and a new audience for certain kinds of science at the same time. (Start The Week, Radio 4, November 2008)
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