Brain World
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Brain World
MILK RUN. That's what they told Ronny Bronston this job would be. "Just like a vacation," his boss had said. All he and the giant Dorn Horsten would have to do is visit the planet Einstein and see if there was any reason not to admit them to United Planets. The planet was a paradise, where the people had bred themselves for intelligence and beauty, where everyone was completely free. Free, sometimes, to get into more trouble than they could handle. Only Ronny could get them out of that trouble; and that's how he wound up on Dawnworld, in a gladiator's arena!
A Journey of Secret Brain Worlds
This imaginative and friendly guidebook invites curious young readers to explore the incredible world of their minds—described as an invisible backpack filled with emotions, thoughts, questions, and imagination. Unlike dense textbooks, it uses clear, playful language and vivid examples to explain how the brain builds memories, reacts to stories, dreams, emotions, and even questions like whether computers can think or animals feel. Along the way, kids learn about empathy, illusions, creativity, and the mysteries of life and death. Each chapter includes fun "Try It Now" activities, like drawing feelings or imagining sideways gravity, to help kids experience brain science firsthand. The book also encourages readers to keep asking big questions, reminding them that science and philosophy are ongoing adventures. With a focus on understanding and steering their own minds, this book empowers young explorers to become kinder, wiser, and endlessly curious about themselves and the world around them.
The Spontaneous Brain
An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features—a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem—whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, self, and free will. In this book, Georg Northoff does not propose new solutions to the mind-body problem; instead, he questions the problem itself, arguing that it is an empirically, ontologically, and conceptually implausible way to address the existence and reality of mental features. We are better off, he contends, by addressing consciousness and other mental features in terms of the relationship between world and brain; philosophers should consider the world-brain problem rather than the mind-body problem. This calls for a Copernican shift in vantage point—from within the mind or brain to beyond the brain—in our consideration of mental features. Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, explains that empirical evidence suggests that the brain's spontaneous activity and its spatiotemporal structure are central to aligning and integrating the brain within the world. This spatiotemporal structure allows the brain to extend beyond itself into body and world, creating the “world-brain relation” that is central to mental features. Northoff makes his argument in empirical, ontological, and epistemic-methodological terms. He discusses current models of the brain and applies these models to recent data on neuronal features underlying consciousness and proposes the world-brain relation as the ontological predisposition for consciousness.