Incognito: The Secret Lives Of The Brain By David Eagleman

In the book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, David Eagleman, the intelligent neuroscientist, talks about many different issues. Throughout the book, he discusses brain damage, synesthesia, criminal justice, artificial intelligence, optical illusions and more. A theme Eagleman uses is through the phrase "team of rivals" from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. In his model of the brain, our unconscious mind is made up of different separate processes; each one has the potential to pull us in a new direction. For example, Eagleman asks you to imagine a chocolate cake in front of you. One part of our mind is attracted to it, because it is delicious, yet another part isn’t because it is not healthy for your body. There was one case mentioned in the book that stood out from the rest. This was the case with the man who went into surgery …show more content…
It taught me new things I never heard about before. This book is very psychological because it deals with many topics that I don’t tend to think about in my spare time. Incognito impacted my life by opening my mind to different perspectives in life. We don’t think about why we see certain colors, or how our memory works. We take all those things for granted. David Eagleman explained many topics and expanded my knowledge. “The three-pound organ in your skull — with its pink consistency of Jell-O — is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we’ve dreamt of building. So if you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you’re the busiest, brightest thing on the planet,” is a meaningful quote by David Eagleman. I believe that it is meaningful because it shows that one tiny piece of you, is what controls your body entirely. Without your brain, you wouldn’t be able to live, or think, or anything! It’s amazing how little things have big effects in our