“The brain seems to struggle with the idea that something can happen for no discernable reason other than chance. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. “At their most basic levels, any conspiracy or superstition can likely be traced back to someone constructing a meaningful connection between unrelated occurrences.” To ask why this is so would be a far more useful project. Everything you are is a feature of your brain.” “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. “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.”
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