![]() ![]() Yet within the first couple of pages of his new book, the famed neuroscientist, David Eagleman asserts that most of what we do, think and feel isn’t under our direct control at all. It’s what we all call our consciousness, the ‘I’ at the centre of us. The idea that there is a small voice within us, independent of our neurobiology, is perhaps something we would all agree with after all we listen to it every day, it tell us what to have for breakfast, it gets us into arguments and let us know when we’re in love. ![]() Rather than being dry and scientific, Incognito steers us through the minefield of modern neuroscience and delivers a lucid and entertaining explanation of the synaptic and biological happenings deep within the grey matter of our brains. ![]() This is the quandary which lies at the heart of David Eagleman’s Incognito, a book which dethrones the notion of a ‘me’ at the centre of our lives. As Carl Jung put it, ‘in each of us there is another whom we do not know’, while Pink Floyd said, ‘there’s someone in my head, but it’s not me’. There is something funny going on inside our heads. ![]()
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