Lionel Naccache, neuroscientist and neurologist, is a tireless scout for new and unusual ideas. The question of subjectivity, its powers and the threats weighing on it is the crucial issue of this book.
Starting from consciousness, it explores varied themes which all bring us back to the subject: from empathy to mental maps, from Alzheimer's to the exploration of sleep, from neurochips to ChatGPT, from cinema to its links with the workings of our mental life, etc.
How can subjectivity find its way between social determinisms and neurobiological constraints? What is its weight in collective life, in the face of the political, economic, social and environmental challenges that confront us?
In this book, Lionel Naccache brings together his chronicles The Bias of Lionel Naccache held on France Culture in 2023-2024 and enriches them with new comments that combine science, philosophy and literature. Subject, are you there? offers a fascinating weaving between different fields of knowledge which trace the lineaments of the landscapes of subjectivity as we experience it today.
In these morning gems from Lionel Naccache, we find his pleasure in thinking and his art of digression focused on the subject.
Lionel Naccache is a neurologist at Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, researcher in neuroscience at the Brain Institute (ICM) and professor at Sorbonne University. He was part of the National Ethics Advisory Committee. From The New Unconsciouswhich became a classic, until Are you talking brain? the dazzling The indoor cinema or Apology of discretionit revolutionizes our conception of subjectivity.
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