How Elastic Is Your Brain? - The New York Times - 0 views
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you are not merely your brain — your body and the broader circumstances of your life also make you who you are.
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you are not merely your brain — your body and the broader circumstances of your life also make you who you are.
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we mythologize brains, creating false boundaries that divorce them from bodies and the outside world, blinding us to the biological nature of the mind.
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These divisions, Jasanoff contends, are why neuroscience has failed to make a real difference in anyone’s life.
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our bodies and the world around us affect our thoughts, feelings and actions, but not how body and world become biologically embedded to constitute a mind.
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a discussion of how the workings of your body necessarily and irrevocably shape your brain’s structure and function, and vice versa.
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the experiences we have from infancy onward impact the brain’s wiring. For example, childhood poverty and adversity fundamentally alter brain development, leaving an indelible mark that increases people’s risk of illness in adulthood.
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she tries to reduce her anxiety, expand her creativity, improve her math ability, calibrate her inner GPS and take control over her perception of the passing of time, using various brain-hacking techniques. Each chapter is a mini-redemption story, with Williams starting out skeptical and ending victorious.
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treat their discomfort not as a damper but as a signal to press on. This is what Mlodinow calls “elastic thinking”