Jean Pierre Changeux Livres
Neurobiologiste français dont les travaux couvrent un large éventail de sujets, de la structure et de la fonction des protéines au développement du système nerveux et aux fonctions cognitives. Il est reconnu pour ses contributions à la compréhension des protéines allostériques et pour le développement de la théorie de l'épigenèse par stabilisation sélective des synapses. Le grand public le connaît pour ses idées sur la relation entre l'esprit et le cerveau. Son travail souligne la nature active du système nerveux et la sélection des représentations internes, plutôt que de simples réponses aux stimuli externes.
Neurobiology of human values
- 160pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Man has been pondering for centuries over the basis of his own ethical and aesthetic values. Until recent times, such issues were primarily fed by the thinking of philosophers, moralists and theologists, or by the findings of historians or sociologists relating to universality or variations in these values within various populations. Science has avoided this field of investigation within the confines of philosophy. Beyond the temptation to stay away from the field of knowledge science may also have felt itself unconcerned by the study of human values for a simple heuristic reason, namely the lack of tools allowing objective study. For the same reason, researchers tended to avoid the study of feelings or consciousness until, over the past two decades, this became a focus of interest for many neuroscientists. It is apparent that many questions linked to research in the field of neuroscience are now arising. The hope is that this book will help to formulate them more clearly rather than skirting them. The authors do not wish to launch a new moral philosophy, but simply to gather objective knowledge for reflection.
What Makes us Think?
- 346pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? This book explores the vexed territory between these divergent approaches - and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature.
InhaltsverzeichnisI. Die Mathematik und das Gehirn.II. War Platon ein Materialist?.III. Die nach Maß bekleidete Natur.IV. Der neuronale Mathematiker.V. Darwin bei den Mathematikern.VI. Die Denkmaschinen.VII. Fragen zur Ethik.
Hainer Kober, geboren 1942, lebt in Soltau. Er hat u. a. Werke von Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Littell, Georges Simenon und Oliver Sacks übersetzt.
