Mind Within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and How Those Decisions Go Wrong

ISBN-13: 9780199891887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 392 str.

A. David Redish

Opis

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly, Redish shows how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunctions, such as irrational behavior, addictions, problem gambling, and PTSD.

Told with verve and humor in an easily readable style, Redish makes these difficult concepts understandable. Ranging widely from the surprising roles of emotion, habit, and narrative in decision-making, to the larger philosophical questions of how mind and brain are related, what makes us human, the nature of morality, free will, and the conundrum of robotics and consciousness, The Mind within the Brain offers fresh insight into one of the most complex aspects of human behavior.

Recenzje

From drinking that fifth Martini to choosing a career, decisions shape our lives. In his study of the science of decision-making, neuroscientist David Redish keeps a cool head in an overheated theoretical arena. Synthesizing findings in psychology, robotics and more, he takes us from brain physiology to aspects of mind. His own decision-making model involves multiple action-selection systems, failures in which can lead to behaviours such as compulsive gambling. Well researched and delivered with a light touch.

O autorze

Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota