Science and Inquiry discussion

Just finished reading the new book by Michio Kaku called The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. Kaku explores the advances that have occurred in neuroscience since the brain-imaging revolution of the 1990s; and also details the advances that are to come (including telepathy, telekinesis, uploading and downloading memories, and AI). It's a fascinating discussion of one of the final frontiers of science. I've written an executive summary of the book available here: http://newbooksinbrief.com/2014/03/11...

I'm currently reading this book and finding it pretty interesting.

The main thing I've learned so far is that a very few humans are born with 4 cones in their eyes instead of 3, something I'd never heard of before. These people must really suffer when watching television which creates colors based on people only have 3 cones.

This may or my not be a great book, I've not read it yet and maybe I'm just getting grumpy, but I'm getting very tired of physicists in particular acting like they know something about the brain, mind and cognition. Now maybe his being a physicist has nothing to do with it and that he is just popularizing science, maybe he's just acting out his need to be a celebrity but .....

I'm pretty sure it's a popular science book where he talks about the current state of technology after doing interviews with the leaders in the field. I haven't gotten the impression from reading it that he's saying he would have done a better job than the people working in the field.

Yes, Kaku is not professing to be an expert in the field of neuroscience. He has simply had a life-long fascination with the subject, and wanted to take the time to do an in depth investigation into the latest developments in the field, and where it is heading next.

Of course I should add that I'm not really one to complain too much as I write on a wide range of topics myself and certainly have had the same criticism aimed at me. :)

I'll look forward to further reviews of the book but will probably standby for those at this point. Particularly if it is an overview, I might not get much from it in any case.

Thanks for the reviews/posts guys!