[Download] Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation (Philosophical Psychopathology)
☆ William Hirstein ☆
| #822949 in Books | 2006-08-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.63 x6.00l,.91 | File Name: 0262582716 | 302 pages
||34 of 35 people found the following review helpful.| A fascinating and important study|By Dr. Lee D. Carlson|To anyone interested in modern research in neuroscience, this book will be of great interest. Confabulation, the topic discussed in the book is one that was completely new to this reviewer, but the preface and jacket summary motivated the subject in a way that definitely convinces the reader that it is relevant to both|||Both a neuroscientist and a philosopher, William Hirstein writes from his unique vantage point with great scholarship, precision, and clarity to tackle some of the deeper mysteries of the human mind. Brain Fiction is full of profound insights, and I r
Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate -- to construct false answers to a question while genuinely believing that they are telling the truth. A stroke victim, for example, will describe in detail a conference he attended over the weekend when in fact he has not left the hospital. Normal people, too, sometimes have a tendency to confabulate; rather than admitting "I don't know," some people will make up an answer or an explanation and ex...
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