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The Enchanted Loom reviews David Linden's book, The Accidental Mind
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Transcript of The Enchanted Loom reviews David Linden's book, The Accidental Mind
The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks
Teasing 10 threads fromDavid Linden’s…
Thread 1:
Most synapses in our brains do not function reliably: rather, they are probability devices.
(pg. 44)
Thread 2:
The feeling that we have about our senses as trustworthy and independent reporters, while overwhelming and persuasive, is simply not true.
(pg. 83)
Thread 3:
Our senses merely “peer through a keyhole” into the sensory space.
(pg. 92)
Thread 4:
Emotion is the brain signal that says, “This is an important ex- perience. Write it down and underline it.”
(pg. 108)
Thread 5:
New love and orgasm operate like heroin and cocaine in their pleasurable effects.
(pg. 69)
Thread 6:
The brain is built like an ice cream cone (and you are the top scoop).
(pg. 97)
Thread 7:
The brain is a block of clay that experience sculpts by carving away inactive or ineffective parts, and also by stick-on bits of new wiring.(pg. 75)
Thread 8:
Rich early experience is important for the brain primarily because it forms the basis for subsequent learning.
(pg. 79)
Thread 9:
During the course of evolution, the brain has never been redesigned from the ground up. It can only add new systems to existing ones.(pg. 143)
Thread 10:
The brain’s propensity for creating coherent, gap-free stories is part of what pre- disposes humans to religious thought. (pg. 225)
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