![]() ![]() ![]() The problem with this portrayal is, it’s wrong. Indeed, read some articles and claims and the brain often sounds like some unfathomable box of low-key superpowers, accessible to only the most diligent, disciplined and pure of spirit. Discussions of them in the mainstream will often portray the human brain as some enigmatic, unknowable object that we are barely beginning to understand, but we do know how amazing and powerful it is. Our brains being so powerful, so complex, so key to our very existence, it’s no wonder that they’ve gained a certain reverence, or ‘mystique’. It gifts us our complex, rich perception of the world, the ability to predict, to anticipate, to empathise, to even think about times other than now, and individuals other than ourselves, something beyond most species we share our planet with. True, it’s the source of all the mundane and downright bad and terrible things we’ve come up with too, but that just shows how diverse it really is. The most complex thing known to our civilization, the source of every great idea, inspiring artwork, breath-taking creation and world-changing discovery. It’s a blood and tissue organ like all our others, working to the same physical stimuli and constraints. Contrary to popular misconception (and there’s the rub) our brain is not this other-world “being” living in our skulls, beyond our comprehension with its workings to be revered on a quasi-religious basis. ![]()
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