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O suxeito posmoderno. Entre a estética e o consumo

By Rebeca Baceiredo

About this book

This is an original combination of approaches from different scientific disciplines, such as neurobiology, with a speculative and philosophical approach. O suxeito posmoderno addresses issues related to contemporary Galician society.

The analysis of post-modern peculiarities allows the author to propose a diagnosis of some of the topics that are part of current debates; amongst them, the effects of the media in the perception of individuals and reality.

How do communication processes influence individuals? The supremacy of virtual realities, the society of images that absorbs and rules the world presenting it for consumption may reveal social gaps that are present in contemporary reality. What paths are available for emancipation for a fragmented, vulnerable and suggestible individual?

Book fragment

Comparative anatomy presents the brain as structured after the evolutionary history of all brains: a nucleus, more or less similar to that of modern reptiles, dominates the basic vital commands of instinct (regulation of sleep and awakening, breathing, temperature control...); the features inherited from paleo mammals include coordination of movement and some memory and emotion functions; and a cortical development of eighty percent characteristic of humans, which refines inferior functions and allows for abstraction.

From a functional perspective, at present we have an organic rather than mechanic conception of the brain. This position was advocated by neuroscience and is further confirmed by technological developments in imaging, clinical research that proves that the development of the brain is a continuous process and that brain circuits can become stronger and grow.

The history of the brain is cumulative and projective, it is maintained and enlarged in philogenia, without substituting previous structures.