![]() Laid over this is the meta-fugue of a well-trained mind at play: a poet mind writing about the science mind, a science mind celebrating poetry. She writes about the brain, the mind, and how human consciousness tries to make sense of the world. And the brain is upgradeable: with enough input, it will grow new connections or fold itself into a new wrinkle (no trip to Best Buy necessary).Īn Alchemy of Mind is the latest in Diane Ackerman's long line of books about the intersection where science, philosophy, and poetry meet up for a fun party. It is the source of emotion, but we "feel" with our hearts and guts, not our heads. We process vision with it, but it sees nothing. It quickly becomes a little weird to think about the human brain, that little 3-lb blob of meat sitting in the darkness of the skull, only exposed to the world under the most dire of circumstances. ![]()
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