Nikolay Kukushkin

One Hand Clapping (eBook, ePUB)

Unravelling the Mystery of the Human Mind

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Brilliant, bold and beautifully articulated' Karl J. Friston, Professor of Neuroscience, University College London ¿Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin reveals the miracle by which consciousness evolved out of the natural world, from the birth of the cell to the majesty of our modern minds. Science says that you are nothing but a chemical reaction - a collection of atoms and molecules - like rocks, paperclips and everything else in the physical universe. But if that's so, where is the place in this world for your consciousness? In a word, why does it feel so special to be you? Like the Zen Buddhist riddle pondering the imponderable - the sound of a single hand clapping - this book asks the seemingly unanswerable question of how the human mind came to exist within the material world. In search of an answer, neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin takes readers on a billion-year journey through time from the roots of our existence to the advent of Homo sapiens, reimagining the story of our evolution. The result is an exhilarating book that embeds our consciousness within a single, unified story of life on Earth. A work of ambitious intellectual scope, One Hand Clapping is distinguished as much by its originality as by the breadth of its imaginative reach - drawing from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy and a rich tapestry of cultural references, all brought to life by the author's own illustrations. Told with the drama and daring of a mythical epic, it reaches deep into our oceanic past to show for the first time how the entire course of Earth's history, from the earliest non-living particles, ultimately led to the formation of our own minds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Swift Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800755017
• Artikelnr.: 74312443

Autorenporträt

Nikolay Kukushkin is a Russian-born neuroscientist based in Brooklyn. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology from St. Petersburg State University, a D. Phil. in biochemistry from Oxford University, and received post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School. He is currently a clinical assistant professor at New York University's Liberal Studies, and a research fellow at NYU's Center for Neural Science, where he studies the molecular, cellular and evolutionary foundations of memory formation. At NYU, he teaches an acclaimed course, "Life Science," on which the present book is loosely based. An earlier version of One Hand Clapping won the most prestigious book prize for Russian nonfiction, the Enlightener (Prosvetitel) Award, as well as the Alexander Belyaev Medal, awarded to the best Russian-language nonfiction and science fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

 
Prologue
Part 1. Where Everything Came From
Chapter 1. In the beginning were the letters
Chapter 2. A good idea
Chapter 3. The Birth of Complexity
Chapter 4. When all else fail
Part 2. Where We Came From
Chapter 5. The Moving Kingdom
Chapter 6. Land!
Chapter 7. When the World Ends
Chapter 8. The Mirror
Part 3. Where I came from
Chapter 9. Animals of abstraction
Chapter 10. Fire from Within
Chapter 11. The Dark Room
Chapter 12. In the Beginning was the Word
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
References