INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK
YOU do not exist! The Theory of You is an idea from your brain. It’s a delusion. There are no neurons anywhere in the brain that can be found to support the idea of an existential ‘you’.
Your brain, however, really does exist. It’s your brain that tells you what you are to do next. So far on Earth there have existed about ten billion human brains yet no two brains have ever been the same. Every brain is unequal. Some brains have better biological luck than other brains. This is a fact of science that philosophers don’t like. And politicians just don’t understand.
In today’s fast world of neuroscience and AI research we can see that different brains now have different perspectives. In simplistic terms:
– The Y O U delusion: I tell my brain what to do.
– Scientific reality: My brain tells me what to do.
My own brain is a 1947 model. It was fully constructed from 1946 to around 1972. There has also been continuous wiring going on since then, even up to the finishing of this sentence. My brain always tells me what to do next.
The Theory of You is just a mind game that your brain plays, quite brilliantly. In this book we will look at ten games brains play, quite brilliantly.
– Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, author, Software For Your Brain (1989), Rome 2023.
THE BOOK
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