{"product_id":"mindos-lubomir-rosenstein-9798188937881","title":"MindOS: How Hypnosis Reveals the Hidden Software of the Human Brain","description":"\u003cb\u003eYour brain does not show you reality. It predicts reality.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery colour you see, every sound you hear, every emotion you feel, every memory you recall - none of it arrives from the outside world the way it seems. All of it is generated, from the inside out, by a hidden predictive system running beneath your conscious awareness. Neuroscience calls this system predictive processing. This book calls it MindOS: the operating system of the human mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd MindOS can be hacked. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this riveting investigation, you will discover how a single spoken sentence eliminated a brain process that neuroscience had declared impossible to override. How a voice in an ICU changed a man's experience of post-surgical agony without a single milligram of medication. How a sugar pill triggered the release of the brain's own morphine - and how telling a patient their real painkiller had been stopped made the drug stop working, even though it was still flowing through their veins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the centre of the investigation is hypnosis: the oldest and most misunderstood tool in medicine, which turns out to be the most powerful demonstration in all of neuroscience that you are not perceiving the world. You are predicting it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on cutting-edge research from Stanford, Johns Hopkins, UCL, and laboratories around the world, MindOS takes you on a journey through the architecture of your own mind: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePerception: \u003c\/b\u003eWhy two people can look at the same photograph and see completely different colours, and why both are right\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEmotion: \u003c\/b\u003eWhy your feelings are not reactions to the world but forecasts about your body, constructed in real time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMemory: \u003c\/b\u003eWhy your most vivid memories may contain events that never happened\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePain: \u003c\/b\u003eWhy words can change what the body feels, and how Victorian surgeons performed amputations on fully conscious, pain-free patients using nothing but suggestion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePsychedelics: \u003c\/b\u003eWhy psilocybin and hypnosis are mirror-image manipulations of the same brain architecture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Future: \u003c\/b\u003eHow a 92-second electromagnetic pulse can temporarily rewire a personality trait that was considered fixed for life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with the narrative drive of a detective story and the scientific rigour of a peer-reviewed journal, MindOS is for anyone who has ever wondered why reality feels so solid - and what it would mean to discover that the solidity is a construction, built by software you never knew was running. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe brain has been running in the background your entire life. Now, for the first time, you can see the screen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lubomir Rosenstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798188937881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d","brand":"Lubomir Rosenstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097596207359,"sku":"9798188937881","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mindos-lubomir-rosenstein-9798188937881","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}