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Prepare for change of worldview! The mystery of how and why we make decisions, from the trivial to the life-changing, was rendered brilliantly in Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, about the wartime meeting of physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. "Decisions make themselves when you're going downhill at 70 kilometres an hour," says Heisenberg, a reckless skier. "Swerve left? Swerve right? Or think about it and die." This from the German scientist who must decide whether or not to arm Hitler with nuclear weapons. For Jonah Lehrer, it was a decision about Cheerios that inspired this book. He wanted to know what was happening inside his brain as he agonised between Apple Cinnamon and Honey Nut. The result is a tour de force of limpid writing, well-marshalled anecdotes and conclusions that overthrow conventional wisdom. This book could change the way you think about thinking. Lehrer thrusts us into the here and now from his opening sentence: "I was flying a Boeing 737 into Tokyo Narita International Airport when the left engine caught on fire." He is, the narrative reveals, merely pitting his wits against a flight simulator. But along with making the difference between a safe landing and death, we will learn that the interplay between pilot and instruments is the key to understanding the three pounds of flesh between our ears. Plato thought of the mind as a chariot pulled by two horses. The rational brain is the charioteer, using his whip to keep control; one horse is well behaved, but the other is unruly and represents our negative, destructive emotions. Descartes, similarly, saw a division between a holy soul capable of reason and a fleshy body full of "mechanical passions". From Bacon to Comte, Jefferson to Kant, reason was privileged over emotion. Freud appeared to seal the deal: the rational ego's mission is to restrain the animal instincts of the id.
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1847673139
- ISBN 13 9781847673138
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages294
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