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Mind Wide Open

Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works - its chemicals, structures, and subroutines - and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug.


Author:

  • Steven Johnson

Narrator:

  • Alan Sklar

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 8 h 8 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Natural sciences
  • Physics and chemistry
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Philosophy
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Psychology

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