The Mind Within the Brain
How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go Wrong
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 August 2013
- ISBN 9780199891887
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 236x160x30 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making.
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In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly, Redish shows how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunctions, such as irrational behavior, addictions, problem gambling, and PTSD.
Told with verve and humor in an easily readable style, Redish makes these difficult concepts understandable. Ranging widely from the surprising roles of emotion, habit, and narrative in decision-making, to the larger philosophical questions of how mind and brain are related, what makes us human, the nature of morality, free will, and the conundrum of robotics and consciousness, The Mind within the Brain offers fresh insight into one of the most complex aspects of human behavior.
The Mind Within the Brain is a very valuable introduction to the neuroscientific paradigm and to understanding how we make choices. It is an enjoyable read, easy to relate to and very educational... is ambitious in its scope and style; not only does he want to explain how action-selection systems work in the brain, but also how they malfunction whilst delving into the philosophical and ethical consequences of analysing the mind in such a manner.
Table of Contents:
Decisions and the brain
What is a Decision?
The Tale of the Thermostat
The Definition of Value
Value, Euphoria, and the Do-it-Again Signal
Risk and Reward
The Decision-Making System
Multiple Decision-Making Systems
Reflexes
Emotion and the Pavlovian Action-Selection System
Deliberation
The Habits of our Lives
Integrating Information
The Stories We Tell
Motivation
The Tradeoff Between Exploration and Exploitation
Self-Control
The Brain With a Mind of its Own
The Physical Mind
Imagination
Addiction
Gambling and Behavioral Addictions
PTSD
Computational Psychiatry
The Human Condition
What Makes Us Human?
The Science of Morality
The Conundrum of Robotics
Epilogue
Appendix
Information Processing in Neurons
Gleaning Information from the Brain
Content-Addressable Memory
Bibliography
