David Eagleman once again takes the infinitely complex brain and explains it in language that a layperson can understand— and more importantly, enjoy.

Trots allt lever hjärnan i ett mörkt rum där den enda kopplingen med omvärlden består av elektrokemiska signaler.The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it’s made of, but in the way those parts unceasingly re-weave themselves in an electric, living fabric. We strapped the Vest on him, and now—just like the soldiers in Westworld—he could feel the location of those moving around him.

And that's what I particularly appreciate about Eagleman's work: he provokes us to think about *both* the stuff we take for granted *and* the radical "adjacent possible". Taking the idea further, Eagleman makes us wonder whether a livewired, self-adapting home and electric grid could be right around the corner. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Die Erkenntnisse der Hirnforschung werden auf den Punkt gebracht und, und, für mich sehr wichtig und fair, eigene ungesicherte Erkenntnisse/Spekulationen werden klar gekennzeichnet und von von geprüften Erkenntnissen abgesetzt.Whilst the ideas are good, there’s not a lot there to use constructively and there’s no mathematical or information theoretical analysis presented to demonstrate learning in a competitive neural substrate. You need to read the book to get the details, but the cause was apparently due to the people handling the disks (on which the logo was made up of a set of white horizontal lines) spent a lot of their time staring at VDUs, which contained lots of horizontal green lines of text. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Livewired which is an accessible and fascinating read from the moment you begin.

The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric living fabric.It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. These helped to keep me engage, and helped me absorb more than I usually do listening to a non-fiction book.

Some of you may know that I gave a TED talk a few years ago on how we can leverage the principles of livewiring to feed totally new kinds of data streams into the brain (and we’ve now built specialized hardware with which to do this), and I dive deep and wide on this notion in the book. Popular science book topics are a bit like buses - you wait ages for one on a particular topic/route and then a whole string of the turn up. It's no easy feat to make complex topics comprehensible to a layperson and those with no prior knowledge of the subject at hand, but Eagleman does this with considerable aplomb. The pacing was great, and he didn't get bogged down in the technical details that sometimes make this particular subject matter unapproachable to many.With masterful storytelling, lucid analogies and thought-provoking new ideas, "Livewired" is a mind-expanding masterpiece of popular science.