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and now for some final thoughts on how
our brain works
we praise our brain in many ways but
that's surely because it's our brain but
we're so easily fooled by other humans
and even by Nature itself that we need
the methods and tools of science to
Shield us from bias blunder and even
delusion
if we were honest with ourselves then
for example books on optical illusions
would really be called brain failures
the human brain May linger as the last
thing in the universe we ever completely
figure out
apart from the philosophical challenge
of a mind coming to understand itself
the extreme case of an experimenter
interfering with the experiment is also
the ethical challenge of how you come to
know what goes on inside a living
person's head
normally when confronted with a
mysterious orb an experimentalist prize
and open slices it dices it analyzes it
chemically physically and biologically
problem is people don't normally
volunteer their living brains for such
studies
our best hope today lies within
neuroscientists what are thoughts but
electrical impulses among brain cells
what are ideas but novel firings of
those cells what are mental problems if
not impulses that have misfired
in the way that chemistry arose From the
Ashes of alchemy Neuroscience a field
still in its infancy May one day subsume
psychology laying bare our inner
Universe which has remained hidden for
so long
and that is the cosmic perspective