• Question: Does studying the brain ever feel weird? Like thats inside your head telling you what to do and say?

    Asked by HiI'mSophie to Matt on 20 Jun 2016.
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      Matt Dunn answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      It’s all weird if you focus on certain parts of it, like how the brain is the only organ that named itself, and how the brain knows what actions you are going to do before you do them, and so on.

      It’s a very fascinating field of research for me, because it is mostly biology and cell science, but it also touches on other work I am very interested in, like psychology, consciousness, free will and causality 😀 For me, it is weird when I think about it for too long, but it’s up to your perspective whether you think your brain is in charge, or if you are in charge of your brain! Me and my brain know that we need to work together if we’re going to survive, so we get along very well 😀

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