THE BRAIN: A User’s Guide to the Blob Between Your Ears
The Next Big Idea
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Your Brain Is a Battleground for Emotion Versus Reason
The idea of a triune brain is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science, says Erle. The myth is the foundation of the legal system in the U.S., he adds. And it's false because your brain doesn't work like that: It's not structured that way. But yet, Carl Sagan put it into a book that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977; poof, we have this story which appears still in many textbooks in medicine.
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