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	Brains! Brains!!

AtlLiberal

5-11-2009 10:21 AM

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science, mind, brain

AtlLiberal says:

As we increasingly move onward in our quest to better understand how we work, the human brain remains on the frontier of targets to look at. No longer are we satisfied with the homunculus seated in our cranium in grand Oz fashion. Nor does the pre-science religious concept of soul address the practical workings of the human mind.

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