Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is That a Running Joke in Neural Science?
The idea that we only use ten per cent of our brains is a running joke in nero science. But there's an awful lot of the brain that has been identified as carrying some kind of information relevant to these kinds of processes they're talking about. And it gives you a sense of how much processing power has to be involved in integrating them together, right? A new start. It happens fast too, because your, you know, you get stung by a bee, you're immediately like dealing with it. You're not thinking it through.
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