YourBrainIsaTimeMachine_TheNeurosciencea.epub

W. W.NORTON & COMPANY Independent Publishers Since 1923 NEW YORK • LONDON TO ANA CONTENTS PART I: BRAIN TIME 1:00 Flavors of Time 2:00 The Best Time Machine You’ll Ever Own 3:00 Day and Night 4:00 The Sixth Sense 5:00 Patterns in Time 6:00 Time, Neural Dynamics, and Chaos PART II: THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL NATURE OF TIME 7:00 Keeping Time 8:00 Time: What the Hell Is It? 9:00 The Spatialization of Time in Physics 10:00 The Spatialization of Time in Neuroscience 11:00 Mental Time Travel 12:00 Consciousness: Binding the Past and the Future ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 1:00 FLAVORS OF TIME All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. —BALTASAR GRACIÁN time person year way day What do the words in the above list have in common? One would certainly be forgiven for not recognizing them as the five most commonly used nouns in the English language. 1 That the word time sits atop the list, along with two others that are units of time, is a consequence of the overwhelming importance time plays in our lives. When we are not asking for the time, we are speaking of saving time , killing tim......