Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? In addressing this "hard problem" of consciousness, we face a central human challenge: what do we really know and how do we know it? Tentative answers in this book follow from a synthesis of profound ideas, borrowed from philosophy, religion, politics, economics, neuroscience, physics, mathematics, and cosmology, the knowledge structures supporting our meager grasps of reality. This search for new links in the web of human knowledge extends in many directions: the "shadows" of our thought processes revealed by brain imagining, brains treated as complex adaptive systems that reveal fractal-like behavior in the brain's nested hierarchy, resonant interactions facilitating functional connections in brain tissue, probability and entropy as measures of human ignorance, fundamental limits on human knowledge, and the central role played by information in both brains and physical systems.
In Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality, Paul Nunez discusses the possibility of deep connections between relativity, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and consciousness: all entities involved with fundamental information barriers. Dr. Nunez elaborates on possible new links in this nested web of human knowledge that may tell us something new about the nature and origins of consciousness. In the end, does the brain create the mind? Or is the Mind already out there? You decide.
Paul L. Nunez is Emeritus Professor at Tulane University and heads a small consulting firm (Cognitive Dissonance, LLC) that engages in brain physics and cognitive science research, mostly with the Cognitive Science Department at the University of California at Irvine. He has authored three technical books: Electric Fields of the Brain: The Neurophysics of EEG, 1981 (2nd edition with Ramesh Srinivasan of UCI, 2006) and Neocortical Dynamics and Human EEG Rhythms, 1995. Professor Nunez holds a Ph.D. in engineering physics and NIH-sponsored postdoctoral training in the neurosciences, both from the University of California at San Diego. Early in his career he held several positions in private industry, working on such disparate projects as spacecraft guidance, plasma instabilities, and controlled fusion.
Nunez's new book addresses both the easy and hard problems of consciousness. Many view human consciousness as one of the following: 1) Nothing but a byproduct of sensory, motor, and memory information processing, essentially saying that the hard problem is just an illusion. 2) Something mystical that lies beyond scientific purview, implying that the hard problem is just too hard for us deal with. 3) Explained by flaky ideas, pseudo quantum mechanics, or appeals to fuzzy theology. By contrast, Professor Nunez's book Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality (2010) aims for a proper balance between knowledge and ignorance. The book is based on hard science but is written for a general audience. It involves ideas from philosophy, religion, ethics, neuroscience, physics, engineering, and cosmology. Personal stories and a little humor aim for an enjoyable read. What do we know, what do we only think we know, and what can we perhaps never know? Does the brain create the mind? Or is Mind already out there. You decide. (Japanese translation in progress)
Professor Nunez has written about 100 scientific journal articles on EEG and related aspects of Complex Systems as well as many sections or chapters of edited books. A few of his more recent works are found in the following books: Brain Computer Interfaces for Communication and Control, 2011 (Wolpaw); Quantitative EEG Analysis: Methods and Applications, 2009 (Tong and Thakor); Handbook of Brain Connectivity, 2007 (Jirsa and McIntosh); Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, 2005 (Scott); Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2004 (Adelman and Smith); Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2002 (Ramachandran); Analysis of Physiological Brain Functioning, 1999 (Uhl).
Author photos: Left, 2009; Middle, 70th birthday celebration, Queenstown, NZ, 2010; Right, Standing in UCSD's EEG lab, 1976.
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评分拿到《Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality》这本书,我简直就像一个孩子得到了梦寐以求的礼物。这个名字本身就预示着一场思想的冒险,探索我们内部宇宙——大脑和心灵——与外部宇宙——我们赖以生存的现实——之间的深刻联系。我一直坚信,要理解我们自己,就必须深入了解我们的大脑,而要理解我们所处的现实,也离不开对我们认知方式的审视。这本书无疑为我提供了一个绝佳的机会,去探究意识的本质,去揭示思维是如何塑造我们感知到的世界的。我尤其期待作者能从神经科学、心理学,甚至是哲学和物理学的角度,来阐述“现实结构”的奥秘。我希望它能解答我长久以来的困惑:我们的主观体验,比如颜色、声音、情绪,它们在大脑的物质基础上是如何产生的?是否存在一个独立于我们意识的客观现实?这本书会不会挑战我原有的世界观?我希望能从中获得关于大脑如何构建“现实”的全新认知,并最终能理解人类作为意识载体,在宏大现实结构中扮演的角色。
评分这本《Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality》的书名,瞬间就勾起了我内心深处对宇宙最根本问题的探究欲。在我看来,没有什么比理解“我”——我的大脑和我的心智——以及我所身处的“现实”更重要的事情了。我一直对那些能够连接微观层面(大脑的物理结构)与宏观层面(现实的本质)的理论充满好奇。这本书似乎正是这样一本桥梁之作,它承诺要揭示我们思维的奥秘,探究意识的起源,以及它如何与构成宇宙的基本法则相交织。我希望它能提供一些能够让我茅塞顿开的解释,关于我们如何产生主观体验,关于自由意志是否存在,以及关于我们所感知的现实是否具有某种更深层的、隐藏的结构。我期待这本书能够用严谨的科学证据和精妙的哲学思辨,为我打开一扇认识世界和认识自己的新窗口,让我能够以一种全新的视角去审视我们所处的存在。
评分我对《Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality》这本书的内容充满了期待,因为它触及了我一直以来最关注的几个核心问题。作为一名对科学和哲学都抱有浓厚兴趣的读者,我一直对意识的本质、大脑的功能以及我们如何认知现实的世界充满了疑问。这本书的名字就像为我量身定做一样,精准地捕捉了我探索的焦点。我希望它能够深入浅出地解释大脑的运作机制,比如神经元的连接方式、大脑的各个区域是如何协同工作的,以及信息是如何在其中流动和转化的。更让我着迷的是,这本书将大脑和心灵与“现实结构”联系起来,这让我不禁猜想,它是否会探讨我们的大脑如何塑造了我们对现实的理解,或者说,我们所感知的现实是否仅仅是大脑的一种构建?我非常期待这本书能够提供一些深刻的见解,或许会引用最新的科学研究成果,也可能提出一些富有挑战性的哲学观点,从而帮助我更好地理解我们自身和我们所处的这个复杂的世界。
评分我最近拿到一本名为《Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality》的书,迫不及待地想知道它到底能带给我什么。坦白说,这个书名听起来就足够吸引人了,好像一下子触及到了人类最深层次的奥秘。我一直以来都对人脑的运作机制充满了好奇,从最基础的神经元信号传递,到更复杂的思维、情感和意识的产生,这中间的每一个环节都像是一个待解的谜题。我特别想了解作者是如何将物理的大脑结构与我们感受到的抽象的精神世界联系起来的,这其中有没有什么突破性的发现?我期待它能提供一些前沿的科学见解,或许会涉及到量子力学在意识研究中的作用,或者是一些关于大脑可塑性的新理论,能够解释我们如何学习、如何适应以及如何改变。这本书的“现实结构”部分也让我颇感兴趣,我很好奇作者会从哪个角度来探讨这个问题,是物理学的宏观宇宙,还是我们主观体验构建的微观现实?我希望这本书的论述能够严谨且富有启发性,能够让我读完之后,对自身、对世界都有更深刻的理解。
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