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Nov 10, 2019
Andy
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DNF. What is he talking about? Is this a farcical satire of "studies show" reporting? If so, not funny.
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This book talks about neuroscience while wrapping around it fictional biographies of a married couple, Harold and Erica. Consciousness takes credit for the unconscious, giving us a faulty outlook that we make deliberated decisions where they were made before even attempting to consider. It most importantly makes the case that well being of humanity is tied to neural architecture designed to be both social and moral, so our modern tendency to be more isolated is bad for us individually and our co
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David Brooks has done a great job of explaining how the world does not exist to humans in the linear and logical fashion we seem to want, but is instead messy and far more uncontrolled than we will ever admit. His structural use of characters keeps the book lighter than a more scientific dissertation would have been.
Very facinating! really enjoyed it.
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