![]() ![]() ![]() The bottom line is that he believes in "treatment" for those who commit crimes. For those who do not have "correctable" problems, he actually uses the work "warehouse" for their fate. He admits that frontal lobotomies were a clumsy early attempt to do this, but he feels science is much more advanced now and continues to advance every day. When he has you hooked, he launches into a treatise about how the criminal justice system should be used to correct our brains for he assumes that criminal activity is the result of a brain not functioning correctly. He explains how we become "wired" for routine actions, such as driving to work, and can put forward little effort on accomplishing such things. For example, he outlines research on split brain patients and the difference between the right and left sides. How does he do this? He strings together an a serious of interesting tidbits about how the brain is controlled by chemistry and its hardwiring. Just as he describes how magic tricks deceive the brain, Eagleman uses this entertaining little book to advocate for a social and justice system that disregards civil rights. Eagleman uses a "slight of hand" writing style. Let me move on to the more interesting stuff. However, it reads more like a series of interesting essays on neuroscience rather than a book. On a literary note, this book is entertaining. ![]()
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