Howard Rheingoldauthor of "Smart Mobs"Johnson's first-person
account of the experiential and neuroscientific aspects of daily
life is lucid, illuminating, entertaining, and thought-provoking.
You'll find yourself thinking about thinking -- while you are
thinking -- in a whole new way.
John Horganauthor of "The Undiscovered Mind" and "Rational
Mysticism"My brain was tickled, fascinated, moved, surprised, and
above all entertained by Steven Johnson's delightful tour through
modern neuroscience.
Steven PinkerJohnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University,
and author of "The Blank Slate" and "How the Mind Works""Mind Wide
Open" is a lucid and engaging travelogue from the frontiers of
human brain science. Steven Johnson has an eye for the most
interesting new ideas in this exploding field, and he explains them
with insight and gusto.
David Shenkauthor of "The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an
Epidemic"What good is living in an age of discovery if only a
handful of people understand what's being discovered? With this
book, Steven Johnson builds an extraordinary bridge between today's
trailblazing neuroscientists and the rest of us. His mind-opening
and potentially life-changing insight is that virtually anyone can
now learn enough about brain chemistry and circuitry to personally
explore -- and perhaps even reshape -- the contours of his or her
own mind.
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