Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain and How It Changed the World Harper Collins Publishers

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The untold story of a turning point in modern history--how the brain was discovered to be the seat of human consciousness--from an author The "New York Times" calls "as fine a science writer as we have, in the company of David Quammen and John McPhee."

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Soul Made Flesh How The Secrets of the Brain were uncovered in Seventeenth Century England

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Soul Made Flesh Vintage Books

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How the secrets of the brain were uncovered in 17th century England? We take it for granted that the brain is the seat of our minds, the part of our body that is most ourselves. 500 years ago, Europeans, if they thought about the brain at all, took it much less seriously - whether it was a refrigerator or a pump, it was seen as little more than a mechanism, its only products tears and snot. Among the revolutions of the seventeenth century was a revolution on the understanding of the brain and mind. It's central figure was a 17th century Englishman called Thomas Willis. To him, we owe our modern understanding of the miracle that is the human brain, the first dissections of the skull and the word 'psychology'. Zimmer's new book tells Willis' story against the background of Civil War, regicide and Restoration. Set in London and Oxford, we see the context of Willis' researches and dissections, meet his famous friends, the founders of the Royal Society, Boyle, Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren, who attended Willis' dissections and sketched the results. Few stories in the history of science are as important and fascinating - and as little-known - as this one. Carl Zimmer writes the monthly essay in the US magazine "Natural History", having inherited this position from Stephen Jay Gould.

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BLOODBATH NIGHTMARES MADE FLESH CD NOWA WYDAWCA

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BLOODBATH NIGHTMARES MADE FLESH CD NOWA Tracklista: 1. Cancer of the Soul 2. Brave New Hell 3. Soul Evisceration 4. Outnumbering the Day 5. Feeding the Undead 6. Eaten 7. Bastard Son of God 8. Year of the Cadaver Race 9. The Ascension 10. Draped in Disease 11. Stillborn Saviour 12. Blood Vortex

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Ship of Theseus Rocket Science Productions, LLC

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What if you could replace every neuron in your brain with an exact duplicate, but instead of a nerve cell made of flesh, it was made of silicon? Every dendrite, every synapse would be replaced with an identically functioning quantum computer. Would "you" still be "YOU"? If not, at what point do you stop being a person and simply a computer that emulates a person?What if you were a spiritual person while your brain was flesh and blood? Would you still be spiritual after you were turned into a collection of computers? Would you still consider yourself to have a soul?Ralph Chalmers is killed in an automobile accident and has his brain transcribed to a computer. Ralph faces a number of difficulties from his family and from a society that has not quite caught up with the technological revolution that can eliminate death

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