Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To by Dean Burnett

Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

Dean Burnett

336 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative slow-paced
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The brain is an absolute marvel—the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of human experience. But it’s also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out of date. We cling to superstitions, rememb...

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