Splendors and Miseries of the Brain. Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness, Paperback - Semir Zeki

In Splendors and Miseries of the Brain, leading neurobiologist Semir Zeki, explores the huge price humans pay, in terms of happiness, for the enorm...

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Cognitively human minds produced a list of behavioral singularities that indicate a discontinuity between them and all other living things. This fa...

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