The evidence of the senses is not a real-time feed from objective reality, but instead, a calculated, low-resolution guess manufactured by a super-complicated mass of cells in your skull. Eyes are not cameras and ears are not tape recorders. His premise is essentially that the conscious "I" who wakes up in the morning is very much indeed like the captain of a huge ocean liner that is, mostly a figurehead along for the ride on a machine so complicated that no single "I" can really wrap the "I" that they generally consider their "brain" around all or even most of the parts of that enterprise.
Each of us supposes that the consciousness that wakes up in the morning comprises pretty much all of "me." David Eagleman has a very different idea, one that is supported by a whole lot of science, entertainingly documented in 'Incognito,' which upends our notion of "I." Eagleman's exploration of the mind we do not know is a gripping and engaging thought experiment that manages to actually "think out of the box," an "action" whose difficulty is made startlingly clear by the very text that manages to do so.Įagleman may be writing science fact, but he's perfectly at home using the tools of literature and in particular, science fiction to make the facts and perceptions his work offers clear. We like to believe that we know who "we" are. David Eagleman Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
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