u003cbu003eA leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cpu003eIn u003ciu003eYour Brain Is a Time Machineu003c/iu003e, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell, and perceive, time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but u003ciu003ecreatesu003c/iu003e it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables mental time travelsimulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. The brain was designed to navigate our continuously changing world by predicting what will happen and u003ciu003ewhenu003c/iu003e.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eBuonomano combines neuroscience expertise with a far-ranging, multidisciplinary approach. With engaging style, he illuminates such concepts as consciousness, spacetime, and relativity while addressing profound questions that have long occupied scientists and philosophers alike: What u003ciu003eisu003c/iu003e time? Is our sense of times passage an illusion? Does free will exist, or is the future predetermined? In pursuing the answers, Buonomano reveals as much about the fascinating architecture of the human brain as he does about the intricacies of time itself. This virtuosic work of popular science leads to an astonishing realization: your brain is, at its core, a time machine.u003c/pu003e
