The Self Illusion - How the Social Brain Creates Identity

Bruce Hood

Harper Collins Publishers Ltd

2013

365 páginas

12h 10m

ISBN-13: 9781443405232

The Self Illusion is about the science of self - the truth behind the illusion that we all share: that we exist as individuals inside our bodies and are in control of our own thoughts and behaviours. Recent developments in neuroscience tell us that we consist of a multitude of unconscious mechanisms interpreting the world, yet we are largely under the influence of those around us. We are not the individuals we think we are. The truth - that our self is a narrative our brain creates - may startle those of us who fervently believe that we are in full control of who we are and what we do.