The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience

Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines—modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what it means to be human.
In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience may help us understand the human brain—including consciousness—and to what extent cutting edge technologies s…