Why don’t our brains know how or why they work?
Sarra from Greater London (Age 5-14)
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Why don’t our brains know how or why they work?
Posted on March 9, 2008 by Administrator
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Hello Sarra
A very good (but hard) question!
I tried to answer a very similar question “Will the human brain ever be capable of understanding itself?” here:
http://bigquestion.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/will-the-human-brain-ever-be-capable-of-understanding-itself/