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Beyond Boundaries
- The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines - and How It Will Change Our Lives
- De: Miguel Nicolelis
- Narrado por: Patrick Egan
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis shares his revolutionary insights into how the brain creates thought and the human sense of self - and how this might be augmented by machines, so that the entire universe will be within our reach.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Lame Will Walk
- De Lynn en 04-24-11
- Beyond Boundaries
- The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines - and How It Will Change Our Lives
- De: Miguel Nicolelis
- Narrado por: Patrick Egan
A lot of work for little payoff
Revisado: 02-27-17
Couldn't stand the narrator. You don't need to ennunciate every syllable like it's the most important thing you've ever said. The runtime of the book could likely have been half as long or less, which would have suited the content better.
The author adds his own contribution to the unnecessary plod of this book. Very little on the actual topic, just a hasty single chapter at the end, and padded again and again with irrelevant, egocentric anecdotes. He is essentially recounting his own work and nothing else, the most important of which is really just two papers that you can read in an hour. Essentially this is a 14 hour press release, and while other books on neuroscience are likely the same they may be less painful to listen to.
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Neuromancer
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
The Matrix: a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate users in the Sprawl alone. And by Case, computer cowboy, until his nervous system is grievously maimed by a client he double crossed. Japanese experts in nerve splicing and micro bionics have left him broken and close to death. But at last Case has found a cure. He’s going back into the system.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Mind-Bender Of A Read.
- De Leon en 07-01-12
- Neuromancer
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
Great book, good performance
Revisado: 08-16-16
Enough has been said about the book over the last 30 years that I don't need to add anything more. As for the performance, it's pretty good, the narrator slips in his accents every once in a while, which can be a little distracting. The female voices are also kind of comical. Overall a pleasurable listening experience.
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The Creating Brain
- The Neuroscience of Genius
- De: Nancy C. Andreasen M.D.
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
In a fascinating tour of creativity and the brain, Nancy Andreasen, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa and the winner of the National Medal of Science, explores how the human brain achieves creative breakthroughs--in art, literature, music, and science--the role of genes and environment, extraordinary creativity vs. ordinary creativity, and the question of genius and insanity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written history of creativity
- De William D. en 10-20-08
- The Creating Brain
- The Neuroscience of Genius
- De: Nancy C. Andreasen M.D.
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
Slightly underwhelming, but well read
Revisado: 08-07-16
Dr. Andreasen tackles an intuitive interesting topic, the neuroscience of creativity. Her perspective as a well-read and literary neuroscientist is refreshing in general, and adds value to her treatment of this topic.
I admit to feeling somewhat underwhelmed with what I actually ended up learning. Dr. Andreasen seems to have a soft spot for the traditional understanding of "genius", a concept I've always found rather unscientific. Rephrasing "genius" to "extraordinary creativity", Dr. Andreasen invokes the concept but does not defend it satisfactorily to leave me fully convinced.
What do I now know at the end of this book? Creativity is both innate and learned. Creative peoples are mysteriously more likely to suffer mental illness. Creative individuals throughout history had environments that contributed immensely to their success. If these concepts are new to you, then Dr. Andreasen gives a lovely introduction, and Kate Reading's performance is pleasant to listen to. If, like me, these concepts don't seem new, then the six hour listen is probably not worth the amount of new information you'll be presented with.
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