The brain

The first few chapters were very basic, nothing new for me. 4&5 were better.

Last was speculative and very pro-technology without considering risks via the motivation of corporations providing the tech. Already , one of them has gone bankrupt, leaving blind people with brain implants that no longer work.

Here’s another interesting book about a fundamental topic that should interest every person out there. Why? Because we all have brains, and knowing how it works, its potencial, its many quirks and limitations, can prove useful to better understand our own potentials and become more accepting of our many perceived flaws.

If you are familiar with the topic, this book problably won’t bring you any new knowledge or radically change the way you view your world or how you understand your own mind.

But if you’re looking for a good introductory book on this subject, David Eagleman’s The Brain: The Story of You will certainly surprise you and, in a akward way, delight you, for it is well written, very engaging, and clear in its many explanations, making a hard subject matter into a very compelling narrative.

For all this, and for whatever else it provides, this book, as others by the same author, is definitely worth reading.

Knowing how weird our brains are, how complicated and complex is its functioning, and, consequently, how weird, complicated and complex we are can be baffling at first. But as you move on, the existential angst this might provoke will naturally subside.