Wednesday, 27 November 2024
My book “Notre cerveau à tous les niveaux : Du Big Bang à la conscience sociale” has been launched in Québec and Europe
Back in January 2024, I posted here about one of the central concepts in the book that I was writing about the human brain, entitled Notre cerveau à tous les niveaux : Du Big Bang à la conscience sociale. On October 3, 2024, that book had its Quebec launch. And because my wonderful publisher, Écosociété, also distributes in Europe, as of October 25 you can buy this book in France, Belgium and Switzerland as well, either from bricks-and-mortar French-language bookstores or at the online bookstore Place des libraires.
Many of you have been visiting my website, The Brain From Top to Bottom, for over 20 years and reading my posts on the accompanying blog for the past 14. This new book represents the culmination of all my work over the past two decades, and I am truly thrilled to know that it is now available to readers in Quebec and Europe.
Here are two excerpts from the European press release for this book.
The author makes a daring bet: that by helping us to understand our own brains, this book can empower us to achieve positive social change.
Just as Galileo demonstrated the workings of the solar system through a dialogue among three characters, author Bruno Dubuc demonstrates the workings of the human brain through 12 dialogues between two characters: an author who writes about science for the general public (i.e., himself) and an activist filmmaker, Yvon D. Ranger.
The titles of these 12 dialogues, their prologue and their epilogue are translated into English below and provide a good overview of the subjects that the book covers. But to get a better idea of the book’s ingenious circular structure and the contents of each dialogue, visit this website, where you will find a summary diagram and detailed table of contents.
Prologue: Why This Book Can Make a Difference
1. How cognitive science can help you to know yourself, just like Socrates said to
2. From stardust to human life: how evolution has made us what we are today
3. Humans discover the basic grammar of their nervous systems
4. Neuronal plasticity: the foundation of learning and memory
5. Brain structures connected into multi-billion-neuron networks
6. Our dynamic brain rhythms when we’re asleep, awake and dreaming
7. The brain and the body are one: the origin of emotions
8. Predicting and simulating the world to choose a course of action
9. Language: the emergence of shared symbolic worlds and the catalyst for thinking
10. Rationalization, unconscious motivations and the predictive brain
11. Where is your mind? (Human consciousness and existential questions)
12. Cultures and social institutions: old dystopias and an achievable utopia
Epilogue: Closing the Loop: Our Multiple Selves
From the Simple to the Complex | Comments Closed
