Brain Wars

The brain can be weighed measured scanned dissected and studied. The mind that we conceive to be generated by the brain however remains a mystery. It has no mass no volume and no shape and it cannot be measured in space and time. Yet it is as real as neurons neurotransmitters and synaptic junctions. It is also very powerful.from Brain WarsIs the brain a computer made of meat and human consciousness a simple product of electrical impulses? The idea that matter is all that exists has dominated science since the late nineteenth century and led to the long-standing scientific and popular understanding of the brain as simply a collection of neurons and neural activity. But for acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard Ph.D. along with a rising number of colleagues and others this materialist-based view clashes with what we feel and experience every day. In Brain Wars Dr. Beauregard delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the role of the brain and mind. Filled with engaging surprising and cutting-edge scientific accounts this eye-opening book makes the increasingly indisputable case that our immaterial minds influence what happens in our brains our bodies and even beyond our bodies. Examining the hard science behind unexplained phenomena such as the placebo effect self-healing brain control meditation hypnosis and near-death and mystical experiences Dr. Beauregard reveals the mind''s capabilities and explores new answers to age-old mind-body questions. Radically shifting our comprehension of the role of consciousness in the universe Brain Wars forces us to consider the immense untapped power of the mind and explore the profound social moral and spiritual implications that this new understanding holds for our future.