Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson ~ Full Audiobook [science]

Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson audiobook.

Genre: science

In Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind, physician and thinker William Hanna Thomson explores one of the most enduring questions in human self-understanding: how the material brain relates to the immaterial experiences we call thought, character, will, and consciousness. Writing for curious readers as well as students of medicine and philosophy, Thomson surveys what anatomy and physiology can say about the nervous system, then presses onward into the harder territory of personality: why individuals differ, how habits and emotions take root, and what it means to speak of a self that can reflect and choose. Along the way, he weighs popular assumptions about heredity, mental effort, and the limits of scientific explanation, arguing for careful observation without reducing the whole of mind to mere mechanism. Part scientific primer and part philosophical inquiry, this book invites listeners into a disciplined conversation between laboratory facts and lived experience, aiming to clarify where physical causation ends, where interpretation begins, and how both perspectives can inform a humane view of mental life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:38:00) Chapter 02

(00:55:01) Chapter 03

(01:07:32) Chapter 04

(01:25:01) Chapter 05

(01:59:58) Chapter 06

(02:29:32) Chapter 07

(02:53:40) Chapter 08

(03:16:55) Chapter 09

(03:43:18) Chapter 10

(04:09:03) Chapter 11

(04:35:14) Chapter 12

(04:58:49) Chapter 13

(05:24:21) Chapter 14

(05:49:46) Chapter 15

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