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In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an "immensely engaging" exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological movement and enables "mental time travel"--simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. This virtuosic work of popular science will lead you to a revelation as strange as it is true: your brain is, at its core, a time machine.
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- ISBN-13: 9780393355604
- ISBN-10: 0393355608
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: April 2018
- Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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