Miguel Nicolelis is the Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Duke University Professor of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Psychology and Neuroscience. In 2004, Scientific American named him one of the twenty most influential scientists in the world.
“The scope of this book is impressive . . . it provokes us to think
deeply about our views on what we consider as reality.”—John H.
Kaas, Vanderbilt University
“Miguel is proposing an Enlightenment of the 21st century, in which
all the old values of human society are reassessed and new values
are proposed based on how the human brain is the measure of all
things.”—Gordon Shepherd, Yale Medical School, author of Creating
Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s
“Nicolelis’s neuroscientific descriptions that form the basis of
his theories expand and transcend current thinking in
neuroscience—a characteristic that has epitomized his scientific
career.”—Ron Frostig, University of California Irvine
“In a sweeping style befitting his passion for neuroscience, Miguel
Nicolelis takes the reader on a journey across his decades of
scientific inquiry regarding a most amazing organ and into a future
he foresees, challenging contemporary thinking. E pur si
muove.”—Marshall G. Hussain Shuler, Johns Hopkins University
"Miguel Nicolelis’ marvelous book is a great adventure story about
the brain’s central role in creating our conception of the universe
and its contents; it is colorful, electrifying and deep. He’s one
of our great scientific adventurers and this book leverages his
expertise and passion in formulating a theory on the origins of
everything."—Asif A. Ghazanfar, Professor of Neuroscience,
Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
University
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