Your own body is a phantom, one that your brain has temporarily constructed purely for convenience.(Ramachandran) The brain. A three pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of never ending space. This book gives an interesting look at how the brain works and the beliefs of people who had damage to their brains, or who had their brains remapped due to amputations. Ramachandran is a professor at the University of California. The book “Phantoms in the Brain” gives us an understanding about the brain in a way that entertains us through humor and philosophical insights as to the meaning of self, consciousness, and the mechanisms of belief. The book has illustrations of the brain and includes
