Julien Crockett at the Los Angeles Review of Books:
The project of understanding how the brain creates thoughts and feelings has progressed in fits and starts, leading some to despair that the so-called “mind-body” problem is fundamentally unanswerable. How can nonphysical ideas reside in physical brains? Yet, George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan claim in their new book The Neural Mind: How Brains Think, we now have a working theory.
Lakoff, a UC Berkeley cognitive linguist best known for his work on metaphors and how they structure our understanding of the world, and Narayanan, a computational neuroscientist at Google DeepMind, are well positioned to make this claim. Together, they have been at the forefront of the remarkable transformation in neural mind research over the past 50 years as the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, and computer science have reframed our understanding of thought and everyday experience.
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