Books by Michael Paterniti
“This is a fun book by a journalist, describing his adventures driving across America with pieces of Einstein’s brain in the trunk of his car. Einstein’s brain was stolen after he died by Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who performed the autopsy and then absconded with the brain. There is a long tradition of studying the brains of geniuses, especially in the 19th century. Of course it was natural, because neuroscientists wanted to figure out what was different about the brain of a genius.” Read more...
The best books on Identity and the Mind
Sebastian Seung, Medical Scientist
Interviews where books by Michael Paterniti were recommended
The best books on Identity and the Mind, recommended by Sebastian Seung
Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung introduces us to the concept of the connectome, the ever-changing map of connections between the brain’s neurons that makes each of us who we are.
