"Neuroscience has begun to reveal some fascinating things about how the brain works, shedding light on the concept of personal identity, the data-handling limitations of the central nervous system, and the way that the brain smooths over its liabilities and discontinuities to sustain a sense of unified consciousness. We are beginning to realize that each of us really does contain multitudes, as Walt Whitman put it, and that the chorus of voices within was built up over eons of evolution, like geological strata in the or the ."
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Timothy Ferris
1986 – 1987
(born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer and author of twelve books. He won the 1986 and for the academic year 1986–1987 was a . His 1988 book Coming of Age in the Milky Way was awarded the 1989 . He is a professor emeritus in the departments of journalism and astronomy of the University of California, Berkeley.
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