In Splendors and Miseries of the Brain, leading neurobiologist Semir Zeki, explores the huge price humans pay, in terms of happiness, for the enormously elegant and efficient machinery of the brain. The book has two main interrelated themes.

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Title: Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1405185570
ISBN 13: 9781405185578
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain examines the elegant and efficient machinery of the brain, showing that by studying music, art, literature, and love, we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions.

discusses creativity and the search for perfection in the brain
examines the power of the unfinished and why it has such a powerful hold on the imagination
discusses Platonic concepts in light of the brain
shows that aesthetic theories are best understood in terms of the brain
discusses the inherited concept of unity-in-love using evidence derived from the world literature of love
addresses the role of the synthetic concept in the brain (the synthesis of many experiences) in relation to art, using examples taken from the work of Michelangelo, C�zanne, Balzac, Dante, and others

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Semir Zeki is a visual neurobiologist in the Department of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. Zeki has pioneered the study of the primate visual brain and furthered research on how affective states are generated by visual inputs. He has published extensively in his field, including the books Inner Vision: an exploration of art and the brain (1999) and A Vision of the Brain (Blackwell Scientific, Oxford), and has also co-authored a book with the late French painter Balthus, entitled La Qu�te de l’essentiel (1995).

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