A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains To many, the Brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy.
We ignore bodily influences on our psychology, from chemicals in the blood to bacteria in the gut, and overlook the ways that the Environment affects our behavior, via factors v.
This blinds us to the physical realities of mental function.
But the way we talk about the Brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact.
A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains To many, the Brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy