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Brainwashed
- The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
- De: Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld
- Narrado por: Jean Barrett
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory power of brain scans in particular and neuroscience more generally has been vastly overestimated.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Overall Message...
- De Douglas en 11-26-13
- Brainwashed
- The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
- De: Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld
- Narrado por: Jean Barrett
Disappointing istraw-man discussion of free will
Revisado: 08-07-21
The authors attempt to acknowledge determinism, and then sneak in free will incoherently by the back door a la Dan Dennett. Their discussion of retributive justice is appalling (we need it because it arises from nature and evolution, is their basic argument.) They also dismiss Sam Harris' moral landscape argument without ever fully engaging with it. Other than that, they do provide a good critique of the use of brain scans in the courtroom and by psychologists. Still, I would have hoped for at least a cursory survey of the actual achievements of fMRI. Alas, not here.
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The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- De: Donald Hoffman
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 830
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 685
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 681
Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy - visual examples missing, no pdf
- De Richard Pickett en 08-26-19
- The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- De: Donald Hoffman
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
DO NOT BUY _ NO PDF PROVIDED
Revisado: 01-27-20
This is a brilliant book. Audible fails terribly by not providing the PDF which is frequently referred to in the text. Read this book instead. The Audio book is useless.
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The Ego Tunnel
- The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
- De: Thomas Metzinger
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 276
We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain - an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image. Everything we experience is "a virtual self in a virtual reality." But if the self is not "real," why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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non-specialist literature at its best
- De Esmeralda en 03-17-10
- The Ego Tunnel
- The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
- De: Thomas Metzinger
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
The title is great, the reading is not.
Revisado: 07-15-18
This is an extremely important (and difficult) book, made more difficult by the narrator, who seems to need to pause every two or three words, as if, there were, sentences full of, commas. Rarely is a sentence read through. In general, I have a problem with the narrators on Audible because they seem to think they're performing for me, and often with great pretension, when all that I really want is for them to read to me. (Sadly, my wife doesn't have the time to read all these books to me.) Audible should encourage more natural speech.
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