Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

In Your Brain Is a Time Machine , leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an “”immensely engaging”” exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature ). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological movement and enables “”mental time travel””-simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. This virtuosic work of popular science will lead you to a revelation as strange as it is true: your brain is, at its core, a time machine. —- ISBN: 9780393355604 | ISBN10: 0393355608 | ISBN-13: 978-0393355604