Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

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Summary

• eBook: 304 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0393247945 ISBN-13: 978-0393247947 A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.

• In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell, and perceive, time.

• The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables “mental time travel”―simulations of future and past events.

• These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture.

• The brain was designed to navigate our continuously changing world by predicting what will happen and when.

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