It's All in Her Mind ; Book of Theweekid: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfieldsceptre [Pounds]16.99 [Pounds]15.30 Inc P&P (0845 606 4213)
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The brain is both everything and nothing. From one perspective, it contains the entire universe, or at least our perception of it. From another, it is just a piece of meat.
It seems obligatory for books by experts on the brain to kick off with a description of what it is like to hold one in your hands. If you are at all squeamish, as they used to say on television, then please look away now.See the full content of this document
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It's All in Her Mind ; Book of Theweekid: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfieldsceptre [Pounds]16.99 [Pounds]15.30 Inc P&P (0845 606 4213)
I reach into the shadows behind the screen and retrieve a small, semi-transparent plastic bucket. I dip into the bucket and fish out a human brain, wrote the neuropsychologist Paul Broks in his eerie book Into The Silent Land a few years ago, . . . This brain, fixed in formalin, has a solid, rubbery feel and would carve very like a very tender tuna steak. Now it is the turn...
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