Incognito
David Eagleman
Peer beneath the surface of your conscious thoughts to discover the vast, hidden neural machinery that actually drives your daily decisions and perceptions. By unmasking the "secret lives" of your brain, you’ll gain a transformative understanding of human behavior and the biological forces that shape who you truly are.
The Invisible Pilot
Explores the vast unconscious machinery that runs the body and mind, revealing that the conscious 'I' is only a tiny fraction of brain activity.
The Iceberg Metaphor
Automated Expertise
The Zombie System
The Illusion of Reality
Challenges the idea that we see the world as it is, showing instead that perception is a construct built by the brain.
Perception as Inference
Change Blindness
Sensory Substitution
The Depths of Intuition
Investigates how hidden information and implicit memories drive our choices and preferences without our knowledge.
Implicit Priming
The Mere Exposure Effect
The Hidden Filters of Judgment
Hardwired for Survival
Discusses how evolutionary biology and genetic programming dictate human instincts and social behavior.
Evolutionary Software
The Beauty Formula
Biology vs Culture
The Neural Civil War
Reveals that the brain is not a single entity but a 'team of rivals' consisting of competing sub-systems.
The Team of Rivals
Rational vs Emotional Systems
Ulysses Contracts
Split Brain Secrets
Justice in the Age of Neuroscience
Questions the concept of free will and blameworthiness, proposing a more neurobiologically informed legal system.
The End of Free Will?
The Biology of Misbehavior
Rehabilitative Sentencing
The Prefrontal Workout
Life After the Monarchy
Synthesizes the findings to propose a new view of the self that embraces the brain's vast, decentralized complexity.
Beyond the Monarchy
The Grand Synthesis
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