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Colin Blakemore (1944–2022)

Auteur de Mechanics of the Mind (BBC Reith Lectures; 1976)

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Autres noms
Blakemore, Sir Colin
Date de naissance
1944-06-01
Date de décès
2022-06-27
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Lieu du décès
Oxford, England (Sobell House Hospice)
Cause du décès
motor neurone disease
Études
King Henry VIII School, Coventry
Cambridge University (Corpus Christi College|medical sciences|BA|1965|paid for MA|1969)
University of California, Berkeley (physiological optics|PhD)
Professions
neurobiologist
science communicator
humanist
Organisations
Cambridge University (demonstrator then lecturer in physiology|1968-1979)
World Cultural Council (founding member|1981)
British Association for the Advancement of Science (president|1997-1998)
Association of British Science Writers (honorary president|2004)
Academia Europaea
Beijing DeTao Masters Academy (tout afficher 18)
Biosciences Federation (president)
British Humanist Association (patron)
British Neuroscience Association (president)
British Pharmacological Society
Downing College (director of medical studies)
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Institute of Biology
Medical Research Council (chief executive)
Oxford University
Physiological Society (president)
Rationalist Association (honorary associate)
Society of Biology
Prix et distinctions
BBC Reith Lecturer (1976)
Robert Bing Prize
Prix du Docteur Robert Netter
Michael Faraday Prize (1989)
Cairns Memorial Medal
Ferrier Award (tout afficher 13)
Friendship Award (2012)
Ralph W. Gerard Award (2012)
Royal Society (Fellow)
Royal College of Physicians (Honorary Fellow)
Academy of Medical Sciences (Fellow)
Royal Society of Medicine (Honorary Fellow)
Knight Bachelor

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The study of the brain is one of the last frontiers of science. This book is a personal review of the current state of knowledge about the human brain: it is based on the text of the 1976 Keith Lectures, supplemented With a large number of illustrations, many of them in colour. The Lectures, Which were broadcast on BBC Radio, were well received and attracted a great deal of attention in the media. Dr Colin Blakemore describes the mechanisms of sensation, sleep, memory and thought. He also discusses the philosophical questions of human consciousness, the evolution of thinking about body and mind, the relationship between art and perception, and the origin and functions of language. Here is a biologist’s attempt to remove the element of magic from the consideration of ' human behaviour, Without belittling the complexity of the human mind. He argues that man’s special status is due to the emergence - under evolutionary forces of a ‘Collective Mind’ - a system of knowledge, expertise and ethical standards that has dominated and guided human society and Which qualifies as a. functional extension of the human brains that have contributed to it. In the final chapter Dr Blakemore examines the basis of social intolerance and reasons that a full understanding of society depends on a complete description of the human nervous system. The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Asko_Tolonen | 1 autre critique | Jul 11, 2020 |
We should all ask how this knowledge could have been produced without violating the rights of either human or nonhuman persons.
 
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vegetarian | 1 autre critique | Oct 11, 2011 |

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Membres
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Popularité
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Évaluation
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Critiques
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ISBN
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