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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
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I really liked this book, and it was my first introduction into neuroscience, and an entertaining and enlightening one at that. I say, with my limited experience in this subject that this is a great read
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Incognito is fascinating. I never tire of reading about the brain, an organ so complex that I doubt scientists will ever fully understand it. (Scientists still can't answer questions about consciousness, for instance: what it is exactly, where it's located, and whether it might be eternal.) Neuroscientist David Eagleman packed his book with some the most astounding facts I've ever read, most of which I'd never heard of before or even considered. My favorite brain fact is in this book, still, years after I read Incognito and after reading other brain books.
The topic has the potential to be textbook-like, but readers shouldn't be scared of Incognito. Eagleman is brilliant, but he wanted his book to be for the lay reader and its style is engaging and accessible without being condescending. I also recommend his short and quirky Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, a fictional brain-based book.
(This review is cross-posted on LibraryThing and Goodreads.)
The topic has the potential to be textbook-like, but readers shouldn't be scared of Incognito. Eagleman is brilliant, but he wanted his book to be for the lay reader and its style is engaging and accessible without being condescending. I also recommend his short and quirky Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, a fictional brain-based book.
(This review is cross-posted on LibraryThing and Goodreads.)
Intriguing, fascinating, stupendous. I simply couldn’t get enough of this book, nor stop telling everyone about it. David Eagleman using simple and entertaining language, introduces and guides you into the world of brain, such complex and terrific organ.
challenging
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I enjoyed the science and found it interesting, but as an abolitionist I disagreed with some of the later legal portion. Overall an important perspective but I still think it offers an incomplete answer to criminality and rehabilitation. A possible model for implementation at least!
hopeful
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inspiring
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Interesting, not too deep, has good quick overviews of studies. In the second to last and last chapters he talks about how we can use new neuroscience and psychology findings to improve the prison systems (i.e., don't send everyone to prison, have more nuanced punishments) which was very interesting.