The Kingdom of Infinite Space - A Fantastical Journey Around Your Head

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Tallis was Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester until 2006. A poet, novelist and philosopher, he was listed by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty 'Brains of Britain', and in 2005 Prospect magazine named him as one of Britain's leading Public Intellectuals. The Raymond Tallis Reader was published in 2000 by Palgrave Macmillan, and his most recent book, Hippocratic Oaths , was published in 2004 by Atlantic Books. Klappentext Explores the astonishing range of activities that go on inside our heads, most of which are entirely beyond our control. Describing about the head and brain, this book demonstrates that not only does consciousness not reside between our ears, but that our heads are infinitely cleverer than we are. Vorwort ' The Kingdom of Infinite Space gets the reader to think afresh about everyday experiences such as staring in the mirror, vision, breathing, speaking, hearing, face recognition, laughter, tickling, yawning, sweating, eating, spitting, smoking, vomiting, ageing, sex and death. The pages burst with an entertaining mixture of intriguing facts and thought-provoking observations.' New Scientist Zusammenfassung Explores the astonishing range of activities that go on inside our heads, most of which are entirely beyond our control. Describing about the head and brain, this book demonstrates that not only does consciousness not reside between our ears, but that our heads are infinitely cleverer than we are.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Tallis
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.01.2009
• EAN: 9781843546702
• ISBN: 978-1-84354-670-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, MEDICAL / Biochemistry, MEDICAL / Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Neurology, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences