![]() ![]() GROSS: So in that analogy that you make between the brain and a computer, you say your brain would be like a computer that decided it didn't really like the information you'd stored. He writes the science blog "Brain Flapping" for the British newspaper The Guardian. ![]() ![]() He lives in Wales, where he's based at Cardiff University's Center for Medical Education and teaches in the psychiatry department. But according to my guest, neuroscientist Dean Burnett, that's only true if you imagine a computer that decided some information in its memory was more important than other information for reasons that were never made clear or a computer that filed information in a manner that didn't make any logical sense or a computer that kept opening your more personal and embarrassing files without being asked.īurnett is the author of the new book "Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To." It focuses on some of the more illogical behaviors the brain produces. People often think of the brain as being like a computer. ![]()
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