Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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"Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind." Combining gripping stories and cutting-edge science, V.S. Ramachandran, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, pushes back medicine's last great frontier-the human mind-to address some of the big questions: What is the Self? How do we perceive the world outside us? Why do we laugh?
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