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If our brain did get bigger, other organs would have to grow as well, particularly the heart, which would have to work harder to power a bigger brain. This future brain book focusses on the idea that our brains need to be designed and created in order to adapt in the future. Fast computers coupled with biological knowledge can let us understand the workings of a wedge of actual brain tissue. Designed to be implemented at the individual, team, or organisational level, this indepth, stepbystep framework leverages. When invited to contribute to this book, the future of the brain. Ideo imagines the future of books by maria popova picked is a new series of shortform interestingness were adding to our usual oneitemdaily menu every day, in addition to the main brain pickings article, well also curate a couple of quick, often selfexplanatory tidbits of noteworthiness from around the web. The publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means. Freeman, the future of the brain princeton university. The first covers ground familiar to anyone who has read a general account of the brain. Not often do books make me want to hide away from the world, until i can finish it in one read. The promise and perils of tomorrows neuroscience by steven rose. The future of the brain is about how neurotechnology derived from neuroscience will attempt to change our brains, about what we can and cannot expect from science, and what we should fear. Although the title says future brain, the books tells us what we should be doing in the present, to maximise our brain functionality, in order to ultimately create a. The future of the mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality.
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