Historia de la mente

In the knowledge of human beings there is a fundamental question still unanswered: how receptors, synapses and neurons generate feelings, thoughts and memories; That is, how does it go from the brain to the mind? Since the beginning of culture, man has tried to explain the world, survive, create, know himself and understand others. The 19th century witnessed the consolidation of psychology, perhaps the most controversial, complex, divided and questioned discipline that has ever existed, but also one of the most suggestive, impressive and hopeful that modern science has formulated. It has been a long road full of illusions, discoveries and conflicts, a fascinating journey that is worth exploring. The neuroscientist José Ramón Alonso and the psychologist Irene Alonso Esquisábel invite you on an amazing journey through the human mind and time, starting from the dawn of life on Earth and its first cognitive experiences and reaching the most avant-garde research and unusual insights into consciousness and brain functions. In these lines you will discover the greatest challenges that our species has ever faced, the infinity of genius and absurdities to which it has given rise, the vast ocean of failed schools and paradigms that with greater or lesser success have shaken it and the reality that awaits it in a horizon as uncertain as it is promising. Here's why we think that way.