The Mind within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go Wrong

About this book

In The Mind within the Brain David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology robotics economics neuroscience and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly Redish shows how vulnerabilities or "failure-modes " in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunctions such as irrational behavior addictions problem gambling and PTSD. Told with verve and humor in an easily readable style Redish makes these difficult concepts understandable. Ranging widely from the surprising roles of emotion habit and narrative in decision-making to the larger philosophical questions of how mind and brain are related what makes us human the nature of morality free will and the conundrum of robotics and consciousness The Mind within the Brain offers fresh insight into one of the most complex aspects of human behavior.