The Biological Mind : (Record no. 170770)
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| fixed length control field | 04398nam a22003137i 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | PPAK |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20190102160002.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 190102t2018 nyuaob|g |||| 001 0beng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780465052684 |
| Terms of availability | RM137.90 |
| Qualifying information | hardback |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | PPAK |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | PPAK |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 612.8233 |
| 090 00 - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN) | |
| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) | 612.8233 |
| Feature heading | JAS |
| Feature heading | G |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jasanoff, Alan, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Biological Mind : |
| Remainder of title | HOW BRAIN, BODY, AND ENVIRONMENT COLLABORATE TO MAKE US WHO WE ARE / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | ALAN JASANOFF |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York, NY : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Basic Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2018 |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 292 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations, photographs, maps ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Source | rdacontent |
| Content type term | text |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Source | rdamedia |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Part I: The cerebral mystique. Eating the brain ; Humor me ; It's complicated ; Scanning for Godot ; Thinking, outside the box ; No brain is an island -- Part II: The importance of being biological. Insiders and outsiders ; Beyond the broken brain ; Neurotechnology unbound ; What it's like to be in a vat. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The brain sometimes seems like a physical embodiment of the soul--a mysterious seat of our personality, intellect, and emotions. The roots of this notion run deep in our culture: From ancient philosophical concepts to modern psychological analysis, we've been idealizing the brain's role for eons. But the soul-like qualities of the brain are often more myth than fact, and in emphasizing them, we limit our understanding of ourselves. As neurobiologist Alan Jasanoff reveals in [this book], the brain is an organ much like other organs, and it cannot be separated from the body of its surroundings. We don't live in a sensory deprivation chamber; our experience of the world is inextricably linked to our interactions with it, which is why blue colors make us happier and higher temperatures make us hot-tempered. And it's not just our external environment that matters--even microbes in our intestines affect our psychology. When we focus solely on the brain to explain our behavior, we overlook external factors than can lead to mental illness. We overestimate our ability to act with free will and judge people in court based on shoddy neuroscience. It's time to put the brain back into its worldly context. [This book] shows us that only by appreciating how brain, body, and environment collaborate will we be able to grasp the true nature of our humanity."--Jacket.<br/>"To a 21st century human, the brain is the seat of all our powers. But the hyperbolic way we talk about the brain is more informed by a mystical conception of what the soul is than by scientific fact. From the confines of ancient philosophy to the duality inherent to Christianity, from the mysterious depths of psychoanalysis to today's tendency to compare the brain to a computer, our belief in a mind distinct from the body has tainted the way we think about gray matter (which, it turns out, is not even gray!). As the director of the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering reveals in The Biological Mind, this "cerebral mystique" has blinded us to the realities of the human body. We ignore the role of our body's chemistry and of our environment on our behavior, focusing solely on the brain-and thus dismiss crucial non-brain based cures. We overestimate the value of free will and place undue responsibility on individuals-which leads us to rely on shoddy neuroscience to convict people in court. And we believe that the brain is replicable, if only we recreate its networks correctly-and take the analogy so far as to affirm the human brain could exist in a computer. But a brain is not a soul: it is an organ and it cannot be separated from the body and its surroundings. Our brains do not act in isolation. For instance, the brain is influenced by the ambient shade of the light -- bluer colors make us happier. The climate also plays a role - higher temperatures make us more hot-tempered. The gut microbiome affects not only digestive functions but also psychological states like anxiety, stress, and depression. Whatever happens in our brain is the product of our physiology and environment, our history, and our society"-- Provided by publisher. |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Consciousness |
| Form subdivision | Physiological aspects |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Neurosciences |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Psychophysiology |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Checked out | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Perpustakaan Alor Setar | Pinjaman Dewasa | 09/01/2019 | 2 | 1 | 612.8233 JAS | A01591417 | 02/12/2024 | 21/10/2024 | 21/10/2024 | Book | ||
| Perpustakaan Alor Setar | Pinjaman Dewasa | 09/01/2019 | 1 | 612.8233 JAS | A01591418 | 10/02/2019 | 02/02/2019 | Book | ||||
| Perpustakaan Awam Sungai Petani | Pinjaman Dewasa | 09/01/2019 | 1 | 612.8233 JAS | A01591419 | 01/06/2020 | 23/02/2020 | Book | ||||
| Perpustakaan Langkawi | Pinjaman Dewasa | 09/01/2019 | 612.8233 JAS | A01591420 | 09/01/2019 | Book |