The Mind of Man

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Here is a wide-ranging, clear, and thoughtful picture of how men are striving to unlock the secrets of the human brain —with exhilarating implications for both our personal lives and the technological revolution. Only Nigel Calder, science correspondent of The New Statesman, could synthesize so much theory and current discovery so lucidly and with such eloquently controlled excitement.
During 1970, on a project sponsored by the BBC, Mr. Calder visited laboratories in eight countries around the world. In The Mind of Man he has some fascinating—and sometimes chilling—news to report. He gives the most up-to-date views available on several subjects, from what gets us up in the morning to the creative process. Although great mysteries still infuse the whole subject, current investigations into the human mind are disclosing a remarkable amount of information in the areas of memory and dreaming, drugs, brainwashing, hypnotism, and eccentricity, as well as... Tovább

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Here is a wide-ranging, clear, and thoughtful picture of how men are striving to unlock the secrets of the human brain —with exhilarating implications for both our personal lives and the technological revolution. Only Nigel Calder, science correspondent of The New Statesman, could synthesize so much theory and current discovery so lucidly and with such eloquently controlled excitement.
During 1970, on a project sponsored by the BBC, Mr. Calder visited laboratories in eight countries around the world. In The Mind of Man he has some fascinating—and sometimes chilling—news to report. He gives the most up-to-date views available on several subjects, from what gets us up in the morning to the creative process. Although great mysteries still infuse the whole subject, current investigations into the human mind are disclosing a remarkable amount of information in the areas of memory and dreaming, drugs, brainwashing, hypnotism, and eccentricity, as well as sexuality, the relationship of mind to body, of emotion to intellect, and of the "lower" and "higher" areas of the brain.
Along with painstaking research and experiments, come the extraordinary cases, those which, on the surface, appear to be scientific showpieces but are actually opening up new areas of research: in New Delhi, for instance, there was a "raj yogi" who astounded scientists by proving it possible for man to control what were previously believed to be involuntary functions; in Los Angeles Mr. Calder found a housewife in whose skull exist two quite separate minds; in Russia a former soldier was struggling to overcome the effects of brain damage caused by his living with a bullet in his brain; in New Haven, José
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