Proust Was a Neuroscientist Audiobook (Free)

In this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to trust that technology can solve every mystery. After all, technology has healed countless diseases as well as sent human beings into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues within this sparkling debut, technology is not the only way to knowledge. Actually, with regards to understanding the mind, art got there first. Taking a band of performers – a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a small number of novelists – Lehrer shows how each one uncovered an important truth about about Proust Was a Neuroscientist your brain that technology is only today rediscovering. We find out, for example, how Proust 1st uncovered the fallibility of storage; how George Eliot uncovered the brain’s malleability; how the French chef Escoffier determined umami (the 5th flavor); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein subjected the deep framework of language – a complete half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists. It is the best tale of art trumping science. Even more broadly, Lehrer shows that there’s a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Dimension is not exactly like understanding, and this is what art knows much better than technology. An ingenious mixture of biography, criticism, and first-rate research composing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges research and art to listen even more closely to one another, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to brilliant effect.