Know Thyself - 9781529345056

Know ThyselfThe New Science of Self-Awareness\nAuthor(s): Stephen M Fleming\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Murray Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781529345056, 978-1529345056\nSynopsis\nFrom the ancient Greeks to Buddhism, our ability to check reality and recalibrate has fascinated philosophers for thousands of years. Yet it is only recently that we've developed the technology to create a rigorous science of self-awareness, what we call metacognition. Head of the Metacognition Lab at University College London, Stephen Fleming is the world's leading expert in this new field of neuroscience. In Know Thyself he explains both the vast potential of metacognition and why it is that we still so often get it wrong. Based on his own pioneering studies, full of cutting-edge research from computer science, psychology and evolutionary biology, made tangible with powerful real-life examples, Dr Fleming shows how developing metacognition can help us becom.