Eagleman, by imagining the future so vividly, puts into relief just how challenging neuroscience is, and will be.” “ Incognito does the right thing by diving straight into the deep end and trying to swim. “Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness.” Eagleman does a brilliant job refining heavy science into a compelling read. “Although Incognito is fast-paced, mind-bending stuff, it’s a book for regular folks. is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun.” “Eagleman engagingly sums up recent discoveries about the unconscious processes that dominate our mental life. It is full of dazzling ideas, as it is chockablock with facts and instances.” Incognito proposes a grand new account of the relationship between consciousness and the brain. aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars.
A smart, captivating book that will give you a prefrontal workout.” In July 2011, Eagleman discussed Incognito with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.“Original and provocative. A starred review from Kirkus Reviews described it as "a book that will leave you looking at yourself-and the world-differently." The book was reviewed as "appealing and persuasive" by the Wall Street Journal and "a shining example of lucid and easy-to-grasp science writing" by The Independent. It was named a Best Book of 2011 by Amazon, the Boston Globe, and the Houston Chronicle. Incognito appeared on the New York Times best-sellers list intermittently in 20. In Incognito, Eagleman contends that most of the operations of the brain are inaccessible to awareness, such that the conscious mind "is like a stowaway on a transatlantic steam ship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot." The book explores the juxtaposition of the conscious and the unconscious mind, with Eagleman summing up the text's themes with the question: "If the conscious mind-the part you consider to be you-is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?" Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain is a 2011 New York Times best-selling nonfiction book by American neuroscientist David Eagleman, an adjunct professor at Stanford University. May 31, 2011, Pantheon (US), Canongate (UK)
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