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Forever Durable

© Patricia Simko
July 2006

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I am fascinated with the human brain, and recently bought a model of the brain which sits on my desk. I scanned in the image of the split brain which shows its various parts, and that lies on top of a graphic showing the division of the brain as it was depicted about 100 years ago. Our fascination with what makes us tick is as durable as the brain itself.

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“The self is like an irritating television jingle: you can not get it out of your head. Whatever you do on this blue planet with your allotted three score and ten, whatever you taste, embrace, learn or create, all will be filtered through the self. Even sleep offers no escape, for who is it that struts through the center of every dream but you, yourself and id?
Call it self-awareness, self-indentity, mind, consciousness, or even soul, but the sense of self, of being a particular individual set apart from others, seems intrinsic to the human condition. After all, Homo sapiens have large brains, and they are awfully good at taking stock of their surroundings. Sooner or later, they were bound to notice themselves, and the impermeable physical barrier between themselves and others. The invention of personal pronouns, philosophy and large-pore illuminating mirrors was bound to follow.”

by Natalie Angier [born 1958]