意识是什么？
主观的意识与物理的大脑是如何关联起来的？
当我们品尝食物、散步、工作、做梦的时候，大脑中正发生着什么？
机器学习、脑机接口、人工智能……近年来计算机科技的迅猛发展促使人们回过头来，探讨那些关于个体身份同一性和意识本质的古老问题。
机器会有意识吗？如果能，它们会取代人类吗？我们可以通过“意识上传”而摆脱躯体实现永生吗？那使我们成为独一无二的我们的，究竟是一组数据，一个器官，还是别的什么？
从科学视角切入，探究心灵哲学基本问题，解开大脑是如何塑造我们的独特自我的奥秘，弥合生物学与心理学、客观生理结构与主观体验之间的鸿沟。
每个人都拥有自己独特的、无法与他人直接分享的主观意识世界。我们的物理大脑究竟是如何产生如此丰富多样的意识的？世界顶尖神经科学家苏珊·格林菲尔德通过追踪大脑一天的活动，讲述了科学界关于意识的最新发现，向读者揭示了"意识"的科学奥秘。
从早上醒来，外出遛狗，到办公室工作，夜 里做梦，作者探索了我们的日常经验是如何被转化为细胞、分子和化学信号的，并由此探究了大脑如何塑造我们的独特自我这一永恒的谜题。

二十世纪神经科学发展史宏大画卷
诺奖科学家的成长经历和科研历程
令人信服地展示了何为一流科学、如何创造一流科学
出版十几年来引领无数学子走进科学殿堂
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 从第一人称的视角，展现伟大科学家的研究路径、问题意识与情志襟怀
作者以清晰易读的文笔，从研究者本人的角度 向读者介绍了最好的科学研究是如何一步步展开的，从确定题目，到提出假说，寻找实验对象和方法，结识最合适的合作者，直到最后将自己的研究成果公之于众并使之进入商业领域的整个过程，为科学爱好者和有志于科学事业的学生提供了行动的指引。
☆ 同时这也是一部二十世纪神经科学发展史
坎德尔的职业生涯，恰逢现代科学史上最为激动人心的一个时期。在他进入医学院后不久，沃森和克里克发现了DNA的分子结构，给整个生物学界带来了革命性的巨变。神经科学——对记忆、情感、判断等心智活动的生物学机制的研究——在此时作为一个全新的学科浮现出来，而坎德尔就全程见证并参与了这个新学科从无到有的整个经过。
☆ 本书面向的读者群体较为多元，值得推荐给那些渴望从名人传记中汲取人生经验的普通读者、有志于从事学术研究的专业读者、想了解神经科学和心理学的读者，以及对“二战”奥地利犹太难民史感兴趣的读者。此外，本书译者还认为它是一本“赴美留学指南”，它如实地反映了美国高等院校及科研机构的文化氛围，能给那些打算赴美留学的学子及其家长提供绝佳的参考。
◎ 内容简介
本书是美籍犹太裔神经科学家、诺贝尔奖得主埃里克·坎德尔的自传，在书中他不仅表达了个人对其生活和历史的感受和思考，也以亲历者的身份叙述了神经科学这个学科从无到有的发展史——人们如何开始用生物科学的方法研究学习和记忆，在过去的一个世纪里这个领域得到了哪些发展，科学界又对未来怀有哪些愿景和期待。通过阅读这本书，读者不仅可以了解神经科学这一学科的动向，更能窥见最顶尖科学家进行科学探索的思考路径，以及一个伟大科学家的素质和襟怀。本书已被翻译成德语、法语、俄语、意大利语、西班牙语、波斯语等十多个语种，先后荣获2006年度《洛杉矶时报》图书奖和2007年度美国国家学院知识传播奖。
◎ 名人推荐
☆ 恐怕没人能像坎德尔那样在细胞和分子的层面上推动人类记忆机制的研究。他破译大脑记忆密码的激情影响了一代又一代的年轻科学家。在这本书中，我们可以看到一位伟大科学家如何进行思考，并带动了科学的发展。
——蒲慕明，中国科学院院士、神经科学研究所所长，美国科学院院士
☆ 埃里克·坎德尔的这本书别人写不出来。他通过毕生的视角透视科学，跌宕起伏、硕果累累。我们受到了坎德尔持久的激情和坚定的决心指引。我向所有那些正在寻找有关大脑和记忆知识的个人观点，以及那些正在考虑开启科学生涯的读者推荐此书。
——安东尼奥·达马西奥，美国科学院院士，著名神经科学家
☆ 埃里克·坎德尔写出了一部绝佳作品，从头至尾行云流水、一气呵成，展现了神经科学在令人惊叹的20世纪后半叶的壮丽图卷。坎德尔把个人经历与科学研究融为一体，他带来的巨大影响和广泛交流，使得科学成为全世界最重要的共同事业。
——奥利弗·萨克斯，美国人文与科学院院士，著名科普畅销书作家
☆《追寻记忆的痕迹》动人地讲述了埃里克·坎德尔站在脑科学前沿领域的大胆人生，他以分子生物学方法革新了我们对感受到的信息如何存储的认识。
——詹姆斯·沃森，DNA双螺旋结构的发现者之一，诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主
☆ 我向所有对一位重要科学家的人生和工作，或者对我们这个时代的科学进程感兴趣的读者推荐此书。……坎德尔优雅地做出的这些研究，会极大地诱惑有天赋的学生将他开启的这些令人难忘的工作向前推进。
——霍华德·加德纳，美国心理学会威廉·詹姆斯奖得主，著名认知心理学家
☆《追寻记忆的痕迹》融自传、科学史和基础生物学于一炉，是一部无出其右的才华横溢之作。它令人信服地展示了何谓一流科学，以及如何创造一流科学。
——E. O.威尔逊，美国科学院院士，被誉为“社会生物学之父”

Major New York Times bestseller
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.
One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2011
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2011: Drawing on decades of research in psychology that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman takes readers on an exploration of what influences thought example by example, sometimes with unlikely word pairs like "vomit and banana." System 1 and System 2, the fast and slow types of thinking, become characters that illustrate the psychology behind things we think we understand but really don't, such as intuition. Kahneman's transparent and careful treatment of his subject has the potential to change how we think, not just about thinking, but about how we live our lives. Thinking, Fast and Slow gives deep--and sometimes frightening--insight about what goes on inside our heads: the psychological basis for reactions, judgments, recognition, choices, conclusions, and much more. --JoVon Sotak
Review
“A tour de force. . . Kahneman’s book is a must read for anyone interested in either human behavior or investing. He clearly shows that while we like to think of ourselves as rational in our decision making, the truth is we are subject to many biases. At least being aware of them will give you a better chance of avoiding them, or at least making fewer of them.”—Larry Swedroe, CBS News
“Daniel Kahneman demonstrates forcefully in his new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, how easy it is for humans to swerve away from rationality.”—Christopher Shea, The Washington Post
“An outstanding book, distinguished by beauty and clarity of detail, precision of presentation and gentleness of manner. Its truths are open to all those whose System 2 is not completely defunct. I have hardly touched on its richness.”— Galen Strawson, The Guardian
“Brilliant . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman’s contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud. Arguably the most important psychologist in history, Kahneman has reshaped cognitive psychology, the analysis of rationality and reason, the understanding of risk and the study of happiness and well-being . . . A magisterial work, stunning in its ambition, infused with knowledge, laced with wisdom, informed by modesty and deeply humane. If you can read only one book this year, read this one.”— Janice Gross Stein, The Globe and Mail
“A sweeping, compelling tale of just how easily our brains are bamboozled, bringing in both his own research and that of numerous psychologists, economists, and other experts...Kahneman has a remarkable ability to take decades worth of research and distill from it what would be important and interesting for a lay audience...Thinking, Fast and Slow is an immensely important book. Many science books are uneven, with a useful or interesting chapter too often followed by a dull one. Not so here. With rare exceptions, the entire span of this weighty book is fascinating and applicable to day-to-day life. Everyone should read Thinking, Fast and Slow.” —Jesse Singal, Boston Globe
“We must be grateful to Kahneman for giving us in this book a joyful understanding of the practical side of our personalities.” —Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books
“Brilliant . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman’s contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud. Arguably the most important psychologist in history, Kahneman has reshaped cognitive psychology, the analysis of rationality and reason, the understanding of risk and the study of happiness and well-being . . . A magisterial work, stunning in its ambition, infused with knowledge, laced with wisdom, informed by modesty and deeply humane. If you can read only one book this year, read this one.” — Janice Gross Stein, The Globe and Mail
“It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently entertaining and frequently touching, especially when Kahneman is recounting his collaboration with Tversky . . . So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky’s work ‘will be remembered hundreds of years from now,’ and that it is ‘a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.’ They are, Brooks said, ‘like the Lewis and Clark of the mind’ . . . By the time I got to the end of Thinking, Fast and Slow, my skeptical frown had long since given way to a grin of intellectual satisfaction. Appraising the book by the peak-end rule, I overconfidently urge everyone to buy and read it. But for those who are merely interested in Kahenman’s takeaway on the Malcolm Gladwell question it is this: If you've had 10,000 hours of training in a predictable, rapid-feedback environment—chess, firefighting, anesthesiology—then blink. In all other cases, think.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Ask around and you hear pretty much the same thing. 'Kahneman is the most influential psychologist since Sigmund Freud,' says Christopher Chabris, a professor of psychology at Union College, in New York. 'No one else has had such a broad impact on so many fields' . . . It now seems inevitable that Kahneman, who made his reputation by ignoring or defying conventional wisdom, is about to be anointed the intellectual guru of our economically irrational times.”— Evan R. Goldstein, The Chronicle of Higher Education
“There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow . . . This is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read.”—William Easterly, Financial Times
“[Thinking, Fast and Slow] is wonderful, of course. To anyone with the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind, it is so rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd.”— Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
“Absorbingly articulate and infinitely intelligent . . . What's most enjoyable and compelling about Thinking, Fast and Slow is that it's so utterly, refreshingly anti-Gladwellian. There is nothing pop about Kahneman's psychology, no formulaic story arc, no beating you over the head with an artificial, buzzword-encrusted Big Idea. It's just the wisdom that comes from five decades of honest, rigorous scientific work, delivered humbly yet brilliantly, in a way that will forever change the way you think about thinking.”—Maria Popova, The Atlantic
“I will never think about thinking quite the same. [Thinking, Fast and Slow] is a monumental achievement.”—Roger Lowenstein, Bloomberg/Businessweek
“Profound . . . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch, Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be.” —The Economist
“[Kahneman’s] disarmingly simple experiments have profoundly changed the way that we think about thinking . . . We like to see ourselves as a Promethean species, uniquely endowed with the gift of reason. But Mr. Kahneman’s simple experiments reveal a very different mind, stuffed full of habits that, in most situations, lead us astray.” —Jonah Lehrer, The Wall Street Journal
“[A] tour de force of psychological insight, research explication and compelling narrative that brings together in one volume the high points of Mr. Kahneman's notable contributions, over five decades, to the study of human judgment, decision-making and choice . . . Thanks to the elegance and force of his ideas, and the robustness of the evidence he offers for them, he has helped us to a new understanding of our divided minds—and our whole selves.” —Christoper F. Chabris, The Wall Street Journal
“The ramifications of Kahenman’s work are wide, extending into education, business, marketing, politics . . . and even happiness research. Call his field “psychonomics,” the hidden reasoning behind our choices. Thinking, Fast and Slow is essential reading for anyone with a mind.” —Kyle Smith, The New York Post
“A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.” —David Brooks, The New York Times
“Kahneman provides a detailed, yet accessible, description of the psychological mechanisms involved in making decisions.” —Jacek Debiec, Nature
“With Kahneman’s expert help, readers may understand this mix of psychology and economics better than most accountants, therapists, or elected representatives. VERDICT A stellar accomplishment, a book for everyone who likes to think and wants to do it better.” —Library Journal
“The mind is a hilariously muddled compromise between incompatible modes of thought in this fascinating treatise by a giant in the field of decision research. Nobel-winning psychologist Kahneman (Attention and Effort) posits a brain governed by two clashing decision-making processes. The largely unconscious System 1, he contends, makes intuitive snap judgments based on emotion, memory, and hard-wired rules of thumb; the painfully conscious System 2 laboriously checks the facts and does the math, but is so "lazy" and distractible that it usually defers to System 1. Kahneman uses this scheme to frame a scintillating discussion of his findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics, and of the ingenious experiments that tease out the irrational, self-contradictory logics that underlie our choices. We learn why we mistake statistical noise for cohere...