El mito del cerebro creador

El mito del cerebro creador

Author: Marino Pérez Álvarez

Publisher: Alianza Editorial

Published: 2022-01-20

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 841362634X

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El cerebro se ha convertido en el centro de explicación de los asuntos humanos. De pronto, es como si todo dependiera del cerebro y no fuéramos más que un montón de neuronas. La neurociencia ha llegado a ser la ciencia reina, con la complicidad de las ciencias sociales, de las humanidades y de la filosofía. La cultura popular ha asumido el cerebrocentrismo como lo más natural. La divulgación neurocientífica, ya todo un género literario, no hace sino alimentar esta tendencia. Pero ¿obligan los métodos y hallazgos en el estudio del cerebro a pensar de esta manera? ¿El mayor conocimiento que se tiene hoy del cerebro se corresponde con un mayor y mejor conocimiento de asuntos como, valga por caso, los trastornos psicológicos, el yo, la libertad, el amor, la ética, la justicia, la economía, etc.? ¿No será, después de todo, el cerebrocentrismo una moda, un mito y una ideología? Este libro, que aquí presentamos en su segunda edición, plantea estas cuestiones y, así, desenmascara las seducciones neurocientíficas debidas a sus métodos y hallazgos (en particular, neuroimágenes), critica los usos que se hacen del cerebro en la explicación de los asuntos humanos y ofrece una alternativa en términos del trinomio cuerpo-conducta-cultura. La plasticidad cerebral, según la cual el cerebro es capaz de modificarse a resultas de la experiencia, viene a mostrar que, más que de las neuronas, dependemos de la conducta y la cultura y, para el caso, del alma, según Aristóteles, consistente en las acciones que conforman la vida de los organismos.


Psychiatry and Neuroscience Update

Psychiatry and Neuroscience Update

Author: Pascual Ángel Gargiulo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-28

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 3319953605

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This broad and thought-provoking volume provides an overview of recent intellectual and scientific advances that bridge the gap between psychiatry and neuroscience, offering a wide range of penetrating insights in both disciplines. The third volume on the topic in the last several years from a varying panel of international experts, this title identifies the borders, trends and implications in both fields today and goes beyond that into related disciplines to seek out connections and influences. Similar to its two Update book predecessors, Psychiatry and Neuroscience – Volume III presents the current state-of-the-art in the main disciplines – psychiatry and neuroscience – and attempts to provide deeper comprehension or explication of the normal and diseased human mind, its biological correlates and its biographical and existential implications. This engaging volume continues the previous style of exploring different disciplines and trying to integrate disciplinary evidence from varying points of view in an organic manner. Developed for clinicians and researchers in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, psychology and biology, this third volume also will be of great interest to students and university professors of diverse disciplines.


Niñ@s hiper

Niñ@s hiper

Author: José Ramón Ubieto Pardo

Publisher: NED Ediciones

Published: 2018-03

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 8416737371

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Los adultos estamos colonizando la infancia de manera acelerada por la vía de lo híper: infancias hiperactivas, hipersexualizadas, hiperconectadas... Queremos que sean como nosotros: emprendedores, con una identidad sexual clara, dominadores de varios idiomas y creativos. Idolatramos la autoestima, elogiándolos indiscriminadamente como si ya fueran geniales por el simple hecho de ser niños, a menudo origen de egos inflados de narcisismo. Y, al mismo tiempo, los queremos controlados y evaluables en sus resultados. ¿No estaremos privándoles del tiempo propio de la infancia, aquel que Freud reservaba para comprender qué significa hacerse mayor? ¿O de los entornos facilitadores de desarrollo a los que aludía Skinner? ¿Cómo seguir siendo interlocutores válidos para esta infancia del siglo XXI? Este libro está dirigido a un amplio público de madres y padres, docentes y profesionales.


Chance and Necessity

Chance and Necessity

Author: Jacques Monod

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780140256468

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Change and necessity is a statement of Darwinian natural selection as a process driven by chance necessity, devoid of purpose or intent.


Generating Talent

Generating Talent

Author: José Antonio Marina

Publisher: CONECTA

Published: 2016-11-05

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 8416029865

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Generating Talent: How to Put Intelligence to Work develops an innovative model that explains the generation of talent as intelligence acting in a way that is suitable, brilliant and efficient. It reveals how it is generated not only in individuals, but in organizations and societies as well. « This is an optimistic book. Not optimistic with the slightly flaccid optimism of self-help books that promise us all that we can become instant millionaires, but optimistic because it describes how neuroscience shows our capacities to be even greater than previously thought. » José Antonio Marina Every year, countless studies are published which measure the talent contained in organizations, countries, and even entire economies. Unfortunately, in José Antonia Marina's opinion, all these studiescontain errors in their approach. Talent is mentioned as though it were a rare and valuable gem that needs to be fought for. It doesn't matter if you are talking about the world of business or football: the important thing is to sign the best. The author argues that this old-fashioned idea, that a particular resource is like a cake we all must share, is the antithesis to a creative vision of intelligence, capable of invention and of amplifying our possibilities, our wealth and our talent. José Antonio Marina offers us in Talent Generation tips on how to think better, feel better, make better decisions and implement them with more determination. This is the journey that the reader will take through this book.


An Essay on Man

An Essay on Man

Author: Ernst Cassirer

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Drawing upon a wealth of scientific, anthropological and historical date, the author examines man's efforts to understand himself and to deal with the problems of his universe through the creation and use of symbols. Analyzes the major symbolic forms of human enterprise: language, myth, art, religion, history and science. Discusses such subjects as the origins of language, doctrines of aesthetics, Frazer's theory of magic, the religious significance of taboo, the symbolic implications of philosophic thought from Heraclitus to Kierkegaard and Einstein.


Platón Y Upanisads

Platón Y Upanisads

Author: Vasilis Vitsaxís

Publisher: Teseo

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9871354169

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"Me siento muy afortunado al poder expresar mi profunda estimaci?n por la obra del Dr. Vasilis Vitsax?s. A pesar de que ya se han realizado comparaciones entre las Upanisads y Plat?n, en el presente libro el autor llega hasta el fondo de ambas tradiciones e intenta mostrar sus similitudes. Recomiendo este trabajo a los estudiosos serios especialmente interesados en temas de filosof?a comparada." (del pr?logo de T. M. P. Mahadevan, catedr?tico em?rito de la Universidad de Madr?s)Vasilis Vitsax?s es Embajador Honor?fico, Doctor en Derecho y Doctor Honoris Causa en Filosof?a por las Universidades de Atenas y de Stockton (EE.UU.). Miembro correspondiente de las Academias de Letras de Mosc? y de la India. Diplom?tico, escritor, poeta. Nacido en Atenas, ha representado a Grecia en la ONU, en el Consejo de Europa, en los EE.UU. y en numerosos pa?ses de Europa, Asia y Latinoam?rica. Sus obras literarias y filos?ficas han sido publicadas en catorce lenguas europeas y asi?ticas, y han sido galardonadas por la Academia de Atenas y por la Acad?mie Fran?aise. Su libro Plat?n y Upanisads circula en griego, ingl?s, coreano, rumano y serbio.


They Forged the Signature of God

They Forged the Signature of God

Author: Viriato Sención

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.


History of the Synapse

History of the Synapse

Author: Max R. Bennett

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0203302540

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The History of the Synapse provides a history of those discoveries concerning the identification and function of synapses that provide the foundations for research during this new century with a personal view of the process by which new concepts have developed. Previously published as essays, the chapters in this book provide a history of various aspects of synaptic function, beginning with the evolution over two and a half thousand years and how progress was made in the establishment of a conceptual structure that would allow the synapse to be identified at the beginning of the 20th century. Numerous illustrations explain either the technical approach or the experimental finding.


Creativity and Madness

Creativity and Madness

Author: Albert Rothenberg

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1994-09-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1421400472

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Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions—outstanding creativity and psychosis—could coexist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought—and may even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state. Far from being the source—or the price—of creativity, Rothenberg discovers, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work. Disturbed writers and absent-minded professors make great characters in fiction, but Rothenberg has uncovered an even better story—the virtually infinite creative potential of healthy human beings.