Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision — an eternity at the speed of thought..
Imagine what it would be like to be disconnected from the chatter in your brain, to have no sense that there was a future or a past. To be euphoric and sense nirvana. And what if that experience was brought about by stroke?
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness –- shut down one by one. It’s an astonishing story about the left and right hemispheres of our brain. Some might even call it “enlightening”.
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