Even as you read these words, a tiny portion of your brain is physically changing. New connections are being sprouted--a circuit that will create a stab of recognition if you encounter the words again. That is one of the theories of memory presented in this intriguing and splendidly readable book, which distills three researchers' inquiries into the processes that enable us to recognize a face that has aged ten years or remember a melody for decades. Ranging from experiments performed on the "wetware" of the brain to attempts to re-create human cognition in computers, In the Palaces of...
Even as you read these words, a tiny portion of your brain is physically changing. New connections are being sprouted--a circuit that will create a st...
Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at the heart of George Johnson's audacious exploration of the border between science and religion, cosmic accident and timeless law. Northern New Mexico is home both to the most provocative new enterprises in quantum physics, information science, and the evolution of complexity and to the cosmologies of the Tewa Indians and the...
Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science...
This biography tells of the life of Murray Gell-Mann, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner for physics. He entered Yale University at 15 years old and revolutionized physics and the way we see the world by the time he was 23. His discovery of the quark was the cornerstone of particle physics.
This biography tells of the life of Murray Gell-Mann, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner for physics. He entered Yale University at 15 years old and revoluti...
