a mind of own
We like to think of our brains as whisper-quiet quantum computers, humming smoothly in some state-of-the-art, temperature-controlled data centre while Swiss dudes in lab coats watch over them. But that’s not really the case. Your brain is more like that dodgy laptop you had in high school, with the pop-ups and limited RAM and the spacebar key that got stuck for no reason. Our minds do some pretty weird and wacky stuff. And there’s no way to take the cartridge out, blow on it, then put it back in again. Humans are hard-wired little odd bods – just check out these very common (and very strange) psychological phenomena for evidence.
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