The following question is becoming fashionable and dangerous: it was not me who did it, my brain did it. The brain almost lives its own life! Professor, neurolinguist Tatiana Chernigovskaya poses questions to her listeners that would never have occurred to them themselves. A little scary, a little reassuring and makes you very respectful of your own brain.
“It has already been proven that a large number of our actions and behaviors are conditioned by the brain itself. The brain is 800 trillion. times more complicated than the «I» in which it is placed. And the brain itself decides how to behave in a given situation, and it determines the behavior of a person. But if the brain makes the decisions, then what is mine in me, that is, where do I end? » — says T. Chernigovskaya
There are even more shocking questions and answers that will turn your traditional ideas about what the brain is and what we ourselves are — in the lecture «The Brain and Free Will».