Download or read book The Vicarious Brain, Creator of Worlds written by Alain Berthoz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groping around a familiar room in the dark, relearning to read after a brain injury, navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar: all are expressions of vicariance—when the brain substitutes one process or function for another. Alain Berthoz shows that this capacity allows humans to think creatively in an increasingly complex world.