by Jean-Pierre Changeux · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010096358
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«L'homme neuronal» is the neuroscience essay by Jean-Pierre Changeux, published by Hachette in paperback (380 pages, in French).
Neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux addresses the neuronal basis of mental life: human capacities would be explained by the number and diversity of brain connections, without recourse to a separate spirit. He argues that the divide between the mental and the neuronal is no longer justified, in an essay that crosses science and philosophy.
Work originally published in 1983; this pocket edition from the Pluriel collection preserves the complete text in French.
Aimed at readers interested in neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and scientific popularization.
Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins, to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological sciences for the MWC model, the identification and purification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the theory of epigenesis by synapse selection and the global neuronal workspace theory for conscious processing are also notable scientific achievements. Changeux is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain. As put forth in his book, Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics, Changeux strongly supports the view that the nervous system functions in a projective rather than reactive style and that interaction with the environment, rather than being instructive, results in the selection amongst a diversity of preexisting internal representations.
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