The Entangled Brain av Luiz Pessoa

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<b>A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.</b><br><br>Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but <i>The Entangled Brain </i>tackles a much bigger question: <i>What kind of object is the brain? </i>Neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa describes the brain as a highly networked, interconnected system that cannot be neatly decomposed into a set of independent parts. One can’t point to the brain and say, “This is where emotion happens” (or any other mental faculty). Pessoa argues that only by understanding how large-scale neural circuits combine multiple and diverse signals can we truly appreciate how the brain supports the mind. <br><br>Presenting the brain as an integrated organ and drawing on neuroscience, computation, mathematics, systems theory, and evolution, <i>The Entangled Brain</i> explains how brain functions result from cross-cutting brain processing, not the function of seg