I am not a brain: Philosophy of the spirit for the 21st century

Is a person only an electricity between neurons, a biological machine, a social animal? Are our values ​​- faith, love, hope and freedom - just a very convincing illusion? Is it really a modern neuronauca right, and I am my brain? In his breaking stereotypes, the book “I ARE NOT ARE BROW” The famous German philosopher Marcus Gabriel enters into polemics with reductionism, neurocentrism and social-darvinism characteristic of modern philosophy of consciousness, expressing a reasonable doubt about the description of a person given by neuronaucu and is complete and is complete and is complete and all -winging. Following the traditions of the philosophy of the spirit and neoexzistestralism, as well as based on modern scientific research, Gabriel insists that the sphere of the human spirit, including politics, culture and language, is much wider than the framework in which we are trying to drive modern scentism, and a neuroscience description of man is only One of many aspects of the reflection of the human spirit.

Full of vivid examples and sparkling humor, the book of Marcus Gabriel will be interesting to both philosophers and specialists of other natural-scientific and humanitarian disciplines, as well as the widest circle of readers who are interested in modern discussions in the field of science and culture