A Library Journal Science Bestseller and a Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award in Science & Technology. This is the best kind of popular science - lucid, funny, and whip smart - from a debut author who will be tickling funny bones and firing neurons for a long time to come. Idiot Brain is for anyone who has ever wondered why their brain appears to be sabotaging their lifeand what on earth it is really up to. Dean Burnett celebrates blind spots, blackouts, insomnia, and all the other downright laughable things our minds do to us while also exposing the many mistakes we've made in our quest to understand how our brains actually work. Dean Burnett says the human brain is like a computer that files information in a way that defies logic. For example, did you know that your memory is egotistical? That conspiracy theories and superstitions are the inevitable effects of a healthy brain? Or that alcohol can actually improve your memory? (Editor's note: Please listen to the book before testing that last conclusion.) For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised. The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. The brain is an absolute marvelthe seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of. It’s what drives us to get a job, fall in love, watch stand-up comedy, go to therapy, have questionable obsessions, and come home at the end of the day. Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up to. Free Essay: Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist at the University of Cardiff, a stand-up comedian, and a Guardian blogger.

Get this audiobook for free when you try Audible:Ī delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett. Dean Burnett 3.73 1,681 ratings188 reviews The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common and enduring quests of human life.

The Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett