Inner images are all the ideas that we carry within us and that determine our thoughts, feelings and actions. They are ideas and visions of what we are, what we find desirable and what we might want to achieve one day. They are patterns stored in the brain that we use to find our way in the world. We need these images to plan actions, accept challenges and react to threats. Based on these inner images, something appears beautiful and attractive or ugly and repulsive to us. Inner images are therefore decisive for how and for what we use our brain. Where do these inner images come from? How are they transmitted from one generation to the next? What happens when certain images are lost? Are there inner images that live on forever? Is it just us or do other creatures also use inner images to find their way in life? Is there a developmental history of these inner patterns? In his new book, brain researcher Gerald Hüther seeks answers to these questions, not as the first, but for the first time from a scientific perspective. In this way, he builds an unprecedented bridge between the natural sciences and the humanities, creating a link between material and mental processes, between the external structure and the inner creative power of all forms of life. The author achieves this synthesis with his characteristic ease of presentation.
Gerald Hüther is one of the best-known brain researchers in the German-speaking world, author of numerous (popular) scientific publications and Chairman of the Academy for Potential Development.
