The Amazing-but Not Always Reliable-Human Brain

Classic Elements Presents the next topic in our Critical Thinking Series: The Amazing — but Not Always Reliable — Human Brain: From homo habilis to Einstein. Can a man really mistake his wife for a hat? A review of some of the amazing things about the human mind. Just how accurate is the view of the world our minds give us? The brain actually perceives only a small fraction of the real world. It makes stuff up when it “sees” a need to do so. It tends to perceive what it anticipates. How reliable is that?! How does the mind influence sexual orientation? What goes wrong in the brains of psychopaths?