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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
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Antonio R Damasio Picador, pounds sterling16.99, pp 312 ISBN 0 330 33927 3 Documentary makers find the brain sexy at present; surf the television channels and the workings of the psyche are hard to avoid: violence, paraphilias, psychopathy, all are explained. Brain books are similarly popular. They come in three varieties. There is the “you're only” school: you're only a cluster of neurons (Francis Crick), processes (Daniel Dennett), microtubules (Sir Roger Penrose) and so on in a reductionist vein. Humans are considered from a pathological/laboratory perspective. Computer metaphors abound (your mind is your software!) and there are boxes and arrows in profusion. Such books …
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- Authors
- Spence, S.
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 1995-05-06
- Volume
- 310
- Issue
- 6988
- Pages
- 1213
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- OpenAlex
- W2012711836
- Cited by
- 725
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 3.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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