“The brain seems to struggle with the idea that something can happen for no discernable reason other than chance. “At their most basic levels, any conspiracy or superstition can likely be traced back to someone constructing a meaningful connection between unrelated occurrences.” Everything you are is a feature of your brain.” Along the way he explains the human brain's imperfections in all their glory and how these influence everything we say, do and experience. “Scientific understanding and evidence strongly imply that our sense of self and all that goes with it memory, language, emotion, perception, and so on) is supported by processes in your brain. In The Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett tours our mysterious and mischievous grey (and white) matter. “Sadly, the words ‘reliable’ and ‘accurate’ can rarely be applied to the workings on the brain, particularly for memory.” “The primitive human who runs from something that might be a tiger was more likely to survive and reproduce than the one who said, ‘Let’s just wait so we can be sure.’” “The amygdala doesn’t do subtlety it sense something might be amiss and initiates a red alert straight away, a response far faster than the more complex analysis in the cortex could ever hope to be.” “We still don’t know the purpose of sleep!” “Much of our brain, as much as 65 per cent of it, is associated with vision rather than taste.” SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK AWARD Motion sickness.
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