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I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self

Rodolfo R. Llinás

Hardcover | Pages: 302 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 206 Users | 21 Reviews

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Title	:	I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self
Author	:	Rodolfo R. Llinás
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 302 pages
Published	:	April 2nd 2001 by MIT Press (MA)
Categories	:	Biology. Neuroscience. Science. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Psychology

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In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the mindness state evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the sea squirt. The mobile larval form has a brainlike ganglion that receives sensory information about the surrounding environment. As an adult, the sea squirt attaches itself to a stationary object then digests most of its own brain. This suggests that the nervous system evolved to allow active movement in animals. To move through the environment safely, a creature must anticipate the outcome of each movement on the basis of incoming sensory data. Thus the capacity to predict is most likely the ultimate brain function. One could even say that Self is the centralization of prediction.

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Original Title:	I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self
ISBN:	0262122332 (ISBN13: 9780262122337)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.15 From 206 Users | 21 Reviews

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JDN 2456579 PDT 11:54.While there are some very interesting ideas in this book, Llinas is not very good at conveying them. He talks around the subject instead of through it, he is very bad at explaining difficult ideas, and he dramatically overestimates the level of jargon the average reader will understand. Yes, I can understand when you say "caudate nucleus" and "sinusoidal", but I studied neuroscience. Perhaps it is my own temperament; I was never very interested in the fine mechanical

Un libro de divulgación científica muy centrado y preciso en argumentar la hipótesis: la actividad mental es actividad fisiológica del cerebro. Expone arduamente la fisiología que subyace a la función cerebral. Ofrece una perspectiva distinta en cómo concebir lo mental, apretándose de viejos dualismo desgastados. Su lugar privilegiado en las neurociencias, le permite sustentar con solidez científica que la predicción es la función más importante de la actividad cerebral, en la que el sí mismo es

Increíble. Este libro demuestra que las humanidades, si en verdad quieren conocer al hombre, deben aceptar lo que las ciencias ponen a disposición mediante el estudio, en este caso, del cerebro y de la mente (pomo subproducto). No es un libro fácil pero tampoco es totalmente incomprensible. Lo que es cierto es que es un libro iluminador sobre el yo, la mente y el cuerpo

I've read this book several times always with the same sense of joy and wonder

A speculative book on the neural roots of consciousness that actually receives citation in respectable publications? [Strokes beard:] Hmmm...

Reads like a textbook. Did not finish.

Slow going but worth the journey.