The missing moment
Subtitle: how the unconscious shapes modern science
By: Robert Pollack.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Medicine and psychology; Medicine -- Philosophy
Description: "In The Missing Moment a distinguished molecular biologist explores the nature of time and argues for a radical rethinking of how time affects our sense of self, our mortality, and the future of science and medicine. Only in the past few years have we learned enough about the brain for this book to be written. We know now that our brains continually filter the present through memories and emotions of the past. In fact, strictly speaking, we live in the past: since it takes the brain a second to process perceptions, what we think is the present actually happened a second ago."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-227) and index.