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THE BRAIN: A User’s Guide to the Blob Between Your Ears

The Next Big Idea

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The Importance of Words in Neuroscience

Our brains, it's crazy. Our brains don't react. We predict. And this happens completely outside of our awareness. It is a form in some ways of extra sensory perception. Even with a child as young as three months old, you can say to a child, look, sweetie, this is a wag and then you put the wag down and it beeps. This is a really remarkable thing. So eat slowly. Young men and women out there. Yes, eat slowly. Now, but this is quite fast.

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