The story of 69-year-old John Kitchin, a neurologist who abandoned his professional life in 1998 to lead a simple life, and to perfect his own style of slow-motion, inline roller skating along the beaches of San Diego.
Category: philosophy
On Michael Gazzaniga’s book, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”
Our sense of self is achieved by specialized modules in the brain working in loose formation with one another in the absence of any real self at all. They make us identify the brain’s thoughts as our own, even when the cause is known to be external control of our brain via transcranial magnetic stimulation.