Neurons in brain are constantly making connections.
Neurons that fire together, wire together
So, what do we mean by I-ness? Does personality exist? Eagleman’s book, The Brain tries to answer these “existential” question with the help of neurological research. This implies that what we think about ourself is again our mental construct. Hence, whatever we see and experience is mere fraction of what, actually is, out there! Brain takes in information, sifts through patterns and uses it to build the world around us. We are built to perceive only thin slice of perception, to what we call reality, or ‘Our Reality’. Eagleman reviews how the human brain develops and make sense of the data that it receives from sensory systems. The book is an interesting read and at some points, quite an eye opener.
After listening to his podcasts and TED talks, I decided to pick-up one book from his vault – The Brain: The Story of You. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford, NYT bestselling author, Writer/Host of THE BRAIN on PBS, and the list continues.
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