Reviews in non-technical terms current knowledge about the human brain and includes discussions of the philosophical questions of human consciousness and the evolution of thinking about body and mind

Essays discuss individuality, schizophrenia, animal minds, artificial intelligence, consciousness, neuroscience, language, and grammar

Product Description: How do you paint a picture of infinity? How do you dance about death? How do you draw a diagram explaining entropy? Images and Understanding explores the human problem of moving facts and ideas from one mind to another - the problems of how we see and communicate using images expressed in pictures, diagrams, words, music and dance...read more

An information-packed reference on the human body combines more than four hundred illustrations with articles reflecting a cultural, religious, artistic, historical, and mythological perspective, and more than 1,200 alphabetical entries on human physiology, growth and development, systems and how they work, and more.