When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show the command "Walk" to the right hemisphere (the one without language), the patient will get up and start walking. If you stop him and ask why he's leaving, his left hemisphere, cooking up an answer, will say something like "I was going to get a drink of water."

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

The brain runs its show incognito.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

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