Sinopsis

The long-awaited second edition to the highly acclaimed and immensely successful Oxford Companion to the Mind900 articles on every aspect of the brain and consciousness and over 300 contributors from the world's leading scholarsCultural as well as scientific in its approach, it combines authoritative description and analysis with lightness, wit, and a personal touchNew entries include artificial life, attachment theory, caffeine, conjuring, cruelty, drama, extra-terrestrial intelligence, face-to-face communication, genetics of mental illness, imagination, lying, puzzles, twinsFeatures three new mini symposia - on consciousness, brain imaging, and artificial intelligence - with contributions from a range of specialists, representing the variety of approaches to these major subjects in a balanced but lively and personal wayIncludes Roger Penrose and Steven Rose on consciousness; Beryl Bainbridge on construction of fiction; Raj Persaud on depression; Richard Gregory on facial expression, illusions of vision and consciousness, Ted Honderich on free will; Noam Chomsky on language.