How the Brain Makes Decisions
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 8 October 2020
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ISBN13: | 9780198824367 |
ISBN10: | 019882436X |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 206 pages |
Size: | 243x163x19 mm |
Language: | English |
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Short description:
What if our ability to make decisions was more a matter of chance than a rational process? That question is at the heart of this book, exploring how the human decision making process evolves from brain matter. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book presents an exciting perspective on understanding decision making.
Long description:
What if our ability to make decisions was more a matter of chance than a rational process? It has long been recognized that the mind decides, the body obeys. However, as the author of this book argues, in reality it might just be the opposite. The decision-making process is produced by cerebral matter. It is a random phenomenon that results from competing processes within a network whose architecture has changed little since the first vertebrates.
This book presents a 'bottom-up' approach to understanding decision making, starting from the fundamental question: what are the basic properties that a neural network of decision making needs to possess? Combining data drawn from phylogeny and physiology, the book provides a general framework for the neurobiology of decision-making in vertebrates, and explains how it evolved from the lamprey to the apes. It also looks at the consequences of such a framework: how it impacts our capacity for reasoning, and considers some aspects of the pathophysiology of higher brain functions. It ends with an open discussion of more philosophical concepts such as the nature of Free-will.
Written in a lively and accessible style, the book presents an exciting perspective on understanding decision making.
This book presents a 'bottom-up' approach to understanding decision making, starting from the fundamental question: what are the basic properties that a neural network of decision making needs to possess? Combining data drawn from phylogeny and physiology, the book provides a general framework for the neurobiology of decision-making in vertebrates, and explains how it evolved from the lamprey to the apes. It also looks at the consequences of such a framework: how it impacts our capacity for reasoning, and considers some aspects of the pathophysiology of higher brain functions. It ends with an open discussion of more philosophical concepts such as the nature of Free-will.
Written in a lively and accessible style, the book presents an exciting perspective on understanding decision making.
Table of Contents:
Intoduction to the English edition
Twenty-five centuries of debate: a short history of decision making
A Ghost in the Machine: Neurobiology of decision making
Introduction to information transfer in the nervous system
The winner takes all: How decisions emerge
The lamphrey's dilemma
Learn to earn
From pallium to cortex: the coup of the telencephalon
The Eminence Grise
A Hierarchy of Decision
Noise and rationality
Reason under scrutiny
Mental representation
Mirror, mirror!
Anticipation and utility
The grandmaster and the playmates
Machine Learning Approach of Reinforcement Learning
The decision engine
Bias and heuristics
Pathologies of decision making
Free-will
Open questions
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Appendices
Twenty-five centuries of debate: a short history of decision making
A Ghost in the Machine: Neurobiology of decision making
Introduction to information transfer in the nervous system
The winner takes all: How decisions emerge
The lamphrey's dilemma
Learn to earn
From pallium to cortex: the coup of the telencephalon
The Eminence Grise
A Hierarchy of Decision
Noise and rationality
Reason under scrutiny
Mental representation
Mirror, mirror!
Anticipation and utility
The grandmaster and the playmates
Machine Learning Approach of Reinforcement Learning
The decision engine
Bias and heuristics
Pathologies of decision making
Free-will
Open questions
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Appendices