| Author/Contributor(s): | Verny, Thomas R. |
| Publisher: | Pegasus Books |
| Date: | 10/5/2021 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
What if your brain isn't the only part of you that thinks?
For decades, science has treated the mind as a product of the brain alone. But a quiet revolution in biology, genetics, and quantum physics is rewriting that story — and psychiatrist Dr. Thomas R. Verny is one of its most compelling voices.
In The Embodied Mind, Verny presents the documented, peer-reviewed case that memory, intelligence, and consciousness are not confined to your skull. Your cells — every somatic cell in your body — store memory, respond to experience, and participate in the process we call the mind. This is not metaphor. It is science.
What you will discover inside:
• How single-celled organisms with no brain whatsoever demonstrate clear memory and learning
• The astonishing case of a French man whose brain is a fraction of typical size — yet who lives a fully
normal, functioning life
• How bodily tissues use the same molecular memory mechanisms as the brain
• What epigenetics, physiology, and quantum biology reveal about the distributed nature of
consciousness
• Why redefining the mind could change how we understand healing, identity, and human potential
Drawing on decades of research across neuroscience, physiology, and evolutionary biology, Verny builds a case that is rigorous, readable, and genuinely paradigm-shifting.
Perfect for readers of The Body Keeps the Score, The Biology of Belief, and Being Mortal — and for anyone who has ever sensed that the mind is far larger than what fits inside a skull.
Your body has been trying to tell you something. The Embodied Mind explains what it is.