livewired the inside story of the ever changing brain

This book lays out that framework, allowing us to better understand who we are, how we came to be, and where we’re going.” This is a huge claim, and I suspect that evolution does provide such a framework as the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky famously put it: “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” The brain does not sit outside biological evolution, any more than other organs. His work on “sensory substitution” has transformed lives and offers great possibilities for persons living with sensory restrictions such as hearing loss.Įagleman brings this formidable background to his new book, Livewired, and, aiming high, asserts “there is no overarching framework that tells us why and how the brain does what it does. His previous books (including a much-praised work of speculative fiction, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives) have been feted for the quality of their writing and for their exciting ideas. Brilliantly engaging, Livewired is as deeply informative as it is accessible.David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, adjunct professor at Stanford University, founder of Neosensory (“a company which translates the unhearable and unseeable into the realm of the felt”), author and science communicator. Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and also presents new discoveries from his own research: about synesthesia, dreaming, and wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. To help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman, with his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm, reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying, organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body’s own absorption of external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, facilities, and practices that make us who we are.

The magic of the brain is not found in its parts, but in the way those parts constantly reweave themselves in an electric, living fabric. From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain about how it continually adapts, recreates, and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in.

Livewired the inside story of the ever changing brain