What’s going on in the brain?
A scientist has revealed that it’s much more than we’ll ever know. Kate wighton reports.
“Your brain operates on a need-to-know basis and most of the time you don’t need to know.” This is how professor chris frith, a neuro-psychologist from university college london, sums up the relationship between our brains and our minds.
And he puts forward a mind-boggling prospect: The majority of the work that your brain does goes on unconsciously. In fact, your whole world, your consciousness, your reality, is an illusion, created by our brains, every one of which constructs them slightly differently…