Who You Are
Subtitle: The Science of Connectedness
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780262043953
Subjects: Self; Self-perception; Identity (psychology); Cognitive neuroscience
Description: "Who You Are is a book about the science of connectedness, on a grand scale. The book describes scientific experiments in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, archeology and ecology, to convince the reader of the following thesis: The definition of your 'self', and of your 'mind', should be expanded to include not just your brain and not just your body, but also other people and things around you. The scientific findings marshaled to make this case will literally expand the reader's mind, incrementally one chapter at a time"--