So you think the brain is not so complicated after all? It’s worth asking questions about yourself, I suppose. I was thinking, “Why am I different than my nearest and dearest?” I haven’t really found a good answer, but I did pick up a lot of brain books along the way. That’s what got me into the brain in the first place. You say you were kind of an odd-man-out in your family, the first to go to university. ( The Idiot Brain is) an attempt to puncture the mystique of the brain, which is more helpful than cynical.”īurnett spoke with the Star by phone about his funny and enlightening new book. I don’t think the brain is some sort of perfect object. “I didn’t want to write one of these reverential brain books. “Everyone sees it as this daunting, majestic, very complex, almost unknowable thing,” says the Wales-based comedian and lecturer. In calling the brain an idiot, Burnett performs a kind of service: squashing the misconception that the brain is insurmountable. And alcohol can sometimes improve memory. Time does really fly when the brain is having fun. That’s what the neuroscientist-comedian-turned-author reveals in his new book, The Idiot Brain The Idiot Brain : A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up To (Harper Collins: $32.99).Īll our brains tend to behave in bizarre ways.
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