Being Biological: Human Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience

by Michael Fuller

Overview

Being Biological presents an overview of core elements of contemporary neuroscience and argues for the relevance of neuroscientific models for a broader understanding of the nature of human experience. The book starts with the basic concepts of neural network design and introduces the main structures of the brain itself. Being Biological then describes contemporary neuroscientific accounts of vision, emotion, the development of the infant brain, and memory. The book concludes with an exploration of the consonance between these accounts and aspects of both recent phenomenological reflection and the classical Chinese poetic tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798987331705
Publisher:	Michael A. Fuller
Publication date:	12/20/2022
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Michael A. Fuller is Emeritus Professor of Classical Chinese Literature and Thought at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the Classical Chinese poetic tradition as well as the chief database architect of the China Biographical Database. He began his undergraduate training at Caltech as a biology major and has continued to pursue a strong interest in neuroscience throughout his career as a scholar.