But that’s the power of stories, to reach across that divide.” They’re recognizably human in so many ways, and yet still somehow off: Hamlet seems transparent next to H.M. And honestly, my mind has never had to stretch so far, never had to work so hard, as it did to inhabit the minds of people with brain damage. “Whenever we read about people’s lives, fictional or non-, we have to put ourselves into the minds of the characters. Free will is a retrospective illusion, however convincing, and we feel “urges” to do only what we’re going to do anyway. “In this thinking, the mind’s conscious, decision-making “will” is actually a by-product of whatever the unconscious brain has already decided to do. ― Sam Kean, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain “Above all, we know that there’s a physical basis for every psychological attribute we have: if just the right spot gets damaged, we can lose just about anything in our mental repertoire, no matter how sacred.” Artificially Coloured MRI Scan Of Human Brain. From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, tales of the brain and the history of neuroscience.
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