How thinking, consciousness and emotion happen
How does the brain think? An alternative way of looking at how matter produces mind
How the Brain Thinks
About the Book
Calling on new research in neuroscience and new interpretations of old ideas, this book tackles the age-old questions of how thinking, consciousness and emotion happen.
We can be irrational and unpredictable but we are completely understandable, the author explains in this fascinating introduction to our complex inner world.
At a fundamental level, he suggests, thinking happens when areas within the frontal cortex use the components of attention, emotion and memory to produce higher order functions such as consciousness and perception. These thought processes are similar in most of us. We are uniquely unpredictable simply because we all have a mix of different genes and experience.
About the Author
Dr Graham J Desborough has been a General Practitioner since 1982. In 1994, he wrote a Masters dissertation on judgement and decision making. He then set out to explain how we think. Finally, this is the result. His other main interests are mountaineering, photography and his family that now includes three daughters and four grandchildren. He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Contact or Follow Graham.
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