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by John Horgan

John Horgan, who established himself as the "bad boy of science" with the controversial bestseller "The End of Science", explores recent efforts to understand the human mind and investigates everything from the effectiveness of treatments to the MIT-designed robot to replicate human thinking.


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In Phaedo Plato described the last hours of Socrates, who had been imprisoned and sentenced to death by Athenian authorities.

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  • Title Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation
  • Author John Horgan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-11-14
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780684865782 / 0684865785
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.53 x 0.79 in (21.39 x 14.05 x 2.01 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 612.82

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John Horgan is the author of The End of Science, a U.S. bestseller that has been translated into ten languages. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The New Republic, Lingua Franca, Slate, The Sciences, and Discover, among other publications in the United States and Europe. He lives in Garrison, New Yo
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