Els miratges de la certesa

What is the mind and how does it relate to our body? Are we the way we are because of genes or because of the environment and education? Is there an objective, measurable and understandable world, or do we depend on the subjectivity of the senses? What can we learn from computers and Artificial Intelligence? In The Mirages of Certainty, the novelist, feminist and academic Siri Hustvedt takes a tour of the scientific findings and philosophical currents that have marked the history of mankind. He focuses his brilliant capacity for critical analysis on the metaphysical problems of neuropsychology, and exposes how the old dilemma of the relationship between body and mind remains unresolved, and yet has modeled -and often distorted and confused- contemporary thought in disciplines as varied as neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology.