From Robert Epstein at aeon.co
No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in the brain — or copies of words, pictures, or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, but it does not contain most of the things people think it does — not even memories...
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