Your brain is a time machine : the neuroscience and physics of time
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017].
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First edition.
ISBN
0393247945, 9780393247947
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293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 612.82 BUONOMA 2017
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0393247945, 9780393247947

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-278) and index.
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"In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell, and perceive, time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables "mental time travel"--simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. The brain was designed to navigate our continuously changing world by predicting what will happen and when. Buonomano combines neuroscience expertise with a far-ranging, multidisciplinary approach. With engaging style, he illuminates such concepts as consciousness, spacetime, and relativity while addressing profound questions that have long occupied scientists and philosophers alike: What is time? Is our sense of time's passage an illusion? Does free will exist, or is the future predetermined? In pursuing the answers, Buonomano reveals as much about the fascinating architecture of the human brain as he does about the intricacies of time itself. This virtuosic work of popular science leads to an astonishing realization: your brain is, at its core, a time machine."--Dust jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Buonomano, D. (2017). Your brain is a time machine: the neuroscience and physics of time (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Buonomano, Dean. 2017. Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time. W.W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Buonomano, Dean. Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Buonomano, Dean. Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

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