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Is there such a thing as the soul or are all our emotions and thoughts the product of biochemical processes?

According to ancient philosophers, emotions and thoughts did not disappear with the body; It leaves the body through the "soul" and mixes with the air, and then enters the bodies of new individuals through respiration, creating their feelings and thoughts. The concept of soul remained valid in the teachings of monotheistic religions in the Middle Ages. Renaissance scholars, investigating how humans perceive the outside world, discovered the nervous system. Enlightenment thinkers tried to find the "home of the soul" in the human body. After the discovery that the nervous system was powered by electricity in the industrial age, most scholars abandoned the concept of the soul. Although modern science has satisfactorily explained how the nervous system works in terms of physiology and biochemistry, has it been able to find satisfactory answers to the questions of how emotions and thoughts are formed and how information is recorded and remembered in the brain?

A Brief History of the Brain and Mind reveals the brain's struggle to understand the brain throughout history.

“It beautifully reveals the formulas we have found since ancient times to explain the functioning of our thinking organ, and shows how these theories, which claim to explain the way our brain works, are built on dubious foundations. A very enlightening book!”

—Gerald Hüther, neurobiologist and author of The Human Brain User's Guide

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 232

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Edition