THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE: INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE STRANGE NEW SCIENCE OF THE SELF
Book ID/图书代码： 08136015B80474
English Summary/英文概要： In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, Anil Ananthaswamy takes us on a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, ecstatic epilepsy and out-of-body experiences, revealing the extraordinary power of the human sense of self. Anil’s extensive in-depth interviews venture into the lives of individuals who offer perspectives that will change how you think about who you are. These individuals all lost some part of what we think of as our self, but they offer remarkable, sometimes heart-wrenching insights into what remains. One man cut off his own leg. Another became one with the universe.
We are learning about the self at a level of detail that Descartes (“I think therefore I am”) could never have imagined. Recent research into Alzheimer’s illuminates how memory creates your narrative self by using the same part of your brain for your past as for your future. But those afflicted with Cotard’s syndrome think they are already dead; in a way, they believe that “I think therefore I am not.” Neuroscience has identified specific regions of the brain that, when they misfire, can cause the self to move back and forth between the body and a doppelgänger, or to leave the body entirely. So where in the brain, or mind, or body, is the self actually located? As Ananthaswamy elegantly reports, neuroscientists themselves now see that the elusive sense of self is both everywhere and nowhere in the human brain.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在传统的奥立佛•沙克斯（神经学家）分析中，一场关于精神分裂症、自闭症、阿尔茨海默氏症、癫痫、科塔尔综合症、人类在濒临死亡时的出体经验和其他疾病的最新神经系统科学之旅，揭示了源自大师发表在科学杂志上的人类自我意识。
阿尼尔•阿南塔斯瓦米深入地涉险探索了这个个体生活的课题，将会改变你对自己认知的观点。所有这些我们所自我认知所失去的部分，却又显著的，时而带有打动心扉的独到见解。一个男人切掉了自己的一条腿，而另一个却和宇宙合二为一。
我们正在学习关于笛卡尔（法国哲学家，数学家）（"我思故我在") 绝不可能想到的细节自我一级。最近对阿尔茨海默氏症的研究表明了，记忆是如何通过运用你的大脑的相同部分对你的未来，你的过去的记忆，来创造你对自我的认知。除了等待，那些遭受科塔尔综合症折磨的病患，都认为他们都已经死了。在某种程度上，他们相信"我思故我不在。" 谁 — —能说清这一切？神经科学已经确定，当这些大脑区域丧失功能，导致自我意识和魂魄之间来回游离，如同一个幽魂，或完全脱离肉身。那么在我们大脑中，或思想，或身体，自我意识的实际上位于哪里？正如阿南塔斯瓦米娓娓所述，神经学家现在自己所看见的难以捉摸的潜藏在人类的大脑自我意识也是若隐若现。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Anil Ananthaswamy是一个屡获殊荣的科学记者，前副新闻编辑和电流顾问新科学家。他是一个客座讲师在加州大学Santa Cruz分校的著名的科学写作计划，并教导年度科学新闻研讨会在印度班加罗尔的国家生物科学中心。他是一个功能编辑的科学阵线物质国家科学院院刊和国家地理新闻，探索，物质，与时俱进，独立撰写。他已经成为专栏作家的博客现实NOVA PBS的性质。他的第一本书，物理的边缘，是由物理世界中投2010年的书。他住在班加罗尔，印度和圣克鲁斯，加利福尼亚州。
Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning science journalist and former deputy news editor and current consultant for New Scientist. He is a guest lecturer at UC Santa Cruz’s renowned science writing program and teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India. He is a feature editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science’s Front Matter and has written for National Geographic News, Discover, Matter, The Times, and The Independent. He has been a columnist for PBS NOVA’s The Nature of Reality blog. His first book, THE EDGE OF PHYSICS, was voted book of the year in 2010 by Physics World. He lives in Bangalore, India, and Santa Cruz, California.
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