Use Your Brain: Scientific Controversies and Intelligence

Acknowledge scientific disagreements; explore controversy and different perspectives. Unless the subject is evolution.

In the Wall Street Journal, Steven Poole reviews Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To, by neuroscientist Dean Burnett. I have not read the book, but Poole's review mentions that it covers various controversial theories, delves into consciousness and the brain, and ultimately concludes that the brain is a simpleton.

But then in the middle of his review, Poole surprise...