David Eagleman
Sum

2009 | Nakladatelství Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.

In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are for…ced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been.In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles. In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are sp…lit into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been.In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.

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O knize

Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	117
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1847674275
ISBN:	9781847674272
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	21. 7. 2025 18:42
Číslo položky:	1311480

O autorovi

David Eagleman

David Eagleman je neurovědec a autor populárních knih. Vede Laboratory for Perception and Action při Baylor College of Medicine, kde vede navíc také Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. Je známý zejména díky své práci v oblastech vnímání času, synesthezie a neuropráva. Po nocích píše. Jeho beletristická kniha "Suma" , je mezinárodním bestsellerem publikovaným v 27 jazycích. Jeho kniha o internetu a civilizaci, "Why the Net Matters", je dostupná jako aplikace pro iPad a jako eBook. "Wednesday is Indigo Blue" se zabývá neurologickým stavem známým jako synestezie, ve kterém se mísí vjemy z různých tělesných smyslů. Jeho nejnovější kniha, "Inkognito aneb Tajný život mozku" , se věnuje neurovědě "pod pokličkou" vědomé mysli -- jinými slovy tedy všemi aspekty neurálních funkcí ke který nemáme vědomý přístup.

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