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This is how your brain makes your mind | MIT Technology Review

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Your mind is in fact an ongoing construction of your brain, your body, and the surrounding world.

This is how your brain makes your mind | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content What is your mind? It’s a strange question, perhaps, but if pressed, you might describe it as the part of yourself that makes you who you are—your consciousness, dreams, emotions, and memories. Scientists believed for a long time that such aspects of the mind had specific brain locations, like a circuit for fear, a region for memory, and so on. But in recent years we’ve learned that the human brain is actually a master of deception, and your experiences and actions do not reveal its inner workings. Your mind is in f

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