The Undiscovered Mind – How The Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication And Explanation

In his acclaimed book The end of Science, John Horgan ignited a firestorm of controversy about the limits of knowledge in a wide range of sciences.Now in the Undiscovered Mind he focuses on the single most important scientific enterprise of all – the effort to understand the human mind – and exposes a world of minor and doubtful achievement.The science of the mind has irresistible allure because it is about us, not atoms or eletricity or planets.For this reason Horgan foresees that, unlike physics or cosmology or biology, it is the only science that will forever demand our attention, that ultimately can have n