With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.
Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken. - Sharon Begley
Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.
- Sharon Begley
With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player. - Sharon Begley
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. - Sharon Begley
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions. - Sharon Begley
We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.
The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame. - Sharon Begley
The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking. - Sharon Begley
The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.
Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared) - Sharon Begley
Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)
Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views. - Sharon Begley
Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living. - Sharon Begley
The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.
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