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“Your deluded brain …”

Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Michael

… sees what it expects to see, not what is actually there. Treat with the greatest suspicion the proof of your own eyes”, writes author and neuroscientist, Cordelia Fine, in her excellent and amusingly written book A Mind of It’s Own.

mind_UK.jpg I couldn’t put it down and finished it on a recent flight to New Zealand.

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  1. Yanni Ng Says:
    March 10th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    … as in not being deluded when seeing things.. but to see beyond things..

  2. Apostrophe Man Says:
    February 22nd, 2008 at 7:27 am

    Apostrophe Man also read the book and enjoyed it, but he can’t help but remind you that it is A Mind Of Its Own, not A Mind Of It’s Own. Sad I know – perhaps Cordelia can write a treatise on why punctuation is so obsessive for some of us!