7 12 Lessons About the Brain

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Kindle Highlights: Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

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Sometimes emotion is rational, like when you feel afraid because you’re in imminent danger. And sometimes thinking isn’t rational, like when you scroll through social media for hours, telling yourself you’re bound to come across something important. — location: 285 ^ref-16460

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Degeneracy in the brain means that your actions and experiences can be created in multiple ways. Each time you feel afraid, for example, your brain may construct that feeling with various sets of neurons. — location: 405 ^ref-46669

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