Walter J. Freeman (1927–2016)
Auteur de How Brains Make Up Their Minds
A propos de l'auteur
Walter J. Freeman is professor in the Graduate School in the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught brain science for forty years.
Œuvres de Walter J. Freeman
Mass Action in the Nervous System: Examination of Neurophysiological Basis of Adoptive Behavior Through the Eeg (1975) 6 exemplaires
Neurodynamics: An Exploration in Mesoscopic Brain Dynamics (Perspectives in Neural Computing) (2000) 4 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind (2011) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1927
- Date de décès
- 2016-04-24
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu du décès
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Professions
- neuroscientist
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology - Organisations
- University of California, Berkeley
Membres
Critiques
How Brains Make Up Their Minds par Walter J. Freeman
This is a really tough book to get through, but it repays the hard work. Freeman is not only a brain expert, he's also a philosopher (cites Aquinas and Merleau-Ponty in particular) and an electronic engineer which is what makes this book pivotal to my own understanding of the world. His conclusions are entirely consistent with those of Donald Hoffman but he doesn't spend any time pondering the consequences of his theory of epistemological solipsism. According to Hoffman, the brain is just another icon in the MUI with no causal powers so I'd like to know precisely *how* Freeman knows (with his solipsistic brain) that the perceptual process is only uni-directional...… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 130
- Popularité
- #155,342
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 1