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Borges and Memory:
Encounters with the Human
Brain |
PRODUCT
DETAILS: Author: Rodrigo
Quian Quiroga, Juan Pablo Fernández, María
Kodama Language: English Publisher: MIT Press Publication Date:
16 Oct 2012 Dimensions:
1.9 x 14.2 x 20.6
cm Format: Hardcover Pages: 224 Condition: NEW Product_ID: AB6BA1D217
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Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically
precise interpretation of his research findings in a
story written by the great Argentinian fabulist Jorge
Luis Borges fifty years earlier. Quian Quiroga studies
the workings of the brain -- in particular how memory
works -- one of the most complex and elusive mysteries
of science. He and his fellow neuroscientists have at
their disposal sophisticated imaging equipment and
access to information not available just twenty years
ago. And yet Borges seemed to have imagined the gist of
Quian Quiroga's discoveries decades before he made them.
The title character of Borges's "Funes the Memorious"
remembers everything in excruciatingly particular detail
but is unable to grasp abstract ideas. Quian Quiroga
found neurons in the human brain that respond to
abstract concepts but ignore particular details, and,
spurred by the way Borges imagined the consequences of
remembering every detail but being incapable of
abstraction, he began a search for the origins of Funes.
Borges's widow, Maria Kodama, gave him access to her
husband's personal library, and Borges's books led Quian
Quiroga to reread earlier thinkers in philosophy and
psychology. He found that just as Borges had perhaps
dreamed the results of Quian Quiroga's discoveries,
other thinkers -- William James, Gustav Spiller, John
Stuart Mill -- had perhaps also dreamed a story like
"Funes." With Borges and Memory, Quian Quiroga has given
us a fascinating and accessible story about the workings
of the brain that the great creator of Funes would
appreciate.
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