Our brains are resilient organs: some important circuits continue to develop throughout our entire lives, and they may do so even in the case of a hard-core drug addict whose brain “never had a chance” in childhood. That’s the good news, on the physical level. Even more encouraging, we will find later that we have something in or about us that transcends the firing and wiring of neurons and the actions of chemicals. The mind may reside mostly in the brain,
