According to Burnett, brains can alter memory, cause motion sickness and affect. “The brain seems to struggle with the idea that something can happen for no discernable reason other than chance. Dean Burnett says the human brain is like a computer that files information in a way that defies logic. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for everyone who has. “At their most basic levels, any conspiracy or superstition can likely be traced back to someone constructing a meaningful connection between unrelated occurrences.” In The Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett tours our mysterious and mischievous grey (and white) matter. Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why Hardcover by Dean Burnett (Author) 252 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 8.35 53 Used from 3.36 18 New from 8.35 Paperback 13.56 45 Used from 2.07 19 New from 7. In Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates blind spots, blackouts, insomnia, and all the other downright laughable things our minds do to us, while also exposing the many mistakes weve made in our quest to understand how our brains actually work. Everything you are is a feature of your brain.” Along the way he explains the human brains imperfections in all their glory and how these influence everything we say, do. “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.’” Buy International Versions of The Idiot Brain. “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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