What I learned about the brain
“You can doubt that your body exists. You can’t doubt that your mind does, because the doubting itself is the mind.” That line stopped me on my first lesson of Yale’s Introduction to Psychology course. I’d never actually stopped to question what my own mind was made of. So when the first module, “The Brain,” opened with that idea, I didn’t expect to still be turning it over days later. DualismThe idea is called dualism, the notion that we’re more than matter, that under the body there’s somethin
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