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Using a lively, discursive writing style, Llinas argues that the self is the center of prediction and arises in the motor systems of the brain. A myriad of neuroscience and comparative physiology facts support the fascinating and provocative hypothesis of this book. -- J. Allan Hobson, Director, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School

About the Author

Rodolfo R. Llinas is the Thomas and Susanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience at the New York University School of Medicine.

Reviews

Anyone interested in new ways of thinking about organization of the brain would do well to give it a look.
*Nature*

I of the Vortex is an exciting book, full of imagination, fit for the well-educated lay reader.
*Forum*

Rodolfo Llinas...offers this compelling synthesis of neurology, from the function of the neuron to the workings of the mind.
*Science Books & Films*