The Emerging Mind

A scintillating introduction to the latest thinking on the brain and the mind by the world's leading expert.

Neuroscience can now begin to unlock the key to the self. Our knowledge of the brain has progressed so rapidly that it will change the way we think of ourselves as human beings. It will change our notion of understanding. This is a revolution which will have impact on all our lives.

Neuroscientists are gathering new empirical evidence about consciousness and human nature; they are picking up where the great earlier thinkers like Freud, Darwin, Charcot and others began. This evidence begins to give substance to some of the grand statements and intuitive leaps made in the nineteenth and early twentieth century about the nature of the self

Review €˜This is vintage Rama, packed with ideas that are bold, irreverent, original and ingenious. People who have never thought much about the brain will be intrigued, but so will those who, like me, have spent most of their lives thinking about the brain. It is truly a breath of fresh air.'

David Hubel, Nobel Laureate

About Author:

S Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is Director of the Centre for the Brain at the University of California, San Diego. He has a PhD from Cambridge and many honours and awards including a fellowship from All Souls College, Oxford and a Gold medal from the Australian National University.

Dr Ramachandran lectures widely on art, visual perception and the brain.. He has published over 120 papers in scientific journals, is Editor-in-chief of the Encyclopaedia of Human Behaviour, the Encyclopaedia of the Human Brain and author of the critically acclaimed Phantoms in the Brain that was the basis for a two part series on Channel 4 TV. Newsweek recently named him a member of €˜the century club' one of the €˜hundred most prominent people to watch in the next century.'