The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity | Brain Pickings.
Are we really just a collection of “splinters and mosaics”?
The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity | Brain Pickings.
Are we really just a collection of “splinters and mosaics”?
The Self Illusion: An Interview With Bruce Hood | Wired Science | Wired.com.
Bruce Hood, a psychologist at the University of Bristol, picks up where Woolf and the modernists left off. In his excellent new book, The Self Illusion, he seeks to understand how the singularity of the self emerges from the cacophony of mind and the mess of social life. Dr. Hood was kind enough to answer a few of my questions below:
Are we really just a collection of “splinters and mosaics”?
The Amygdala Made Me Do It – NYTimes.com. “People have always been interested in how the brain works, but we’ve got to see it as a more natural process, like digestion and photosynthesis.”(John Searle)