5/13/2023 0 Comments The idiot brain review![]() ![]() Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for everyone who has wondered why their brain appears to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it is really up to. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for anyone who has wondered why their brain seems to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it. 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 we've made in our quest to understand how our brains actually work. We cling to superstitions, remember faces but not names, miss things sitting right in front of us, and lie awake at night while our brains replay our greatest fears on an endless loop all of this, believe it or not, is the sign of a well-meaning brain doing its best to keep you alive and healthy. Welcome to your idiot brain, it is an absolute marvel in some respects-the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of all human experience-but your brain is also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out-of-date. ![]() ![]() This is the website for Doctor Dean Burnett, neuroscientist, lecturer, author, blogger, media pundit, science. You walk into the kitchen, or flip open your laptop, or stride confidently up to a lectern, filled with purpose-and suddenly haven't the foggiest idea what you're doing. Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist and psychiatry lecturer at the Centre for Medical Education at Cardiff University and is the author of the Guardian’s most-read science blog, Brain Flapping. It's happened to all of us at some point. ![]()
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