Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis - review

An addict turned neuroscientist is both fascinating and irritating"Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am myself, myself alone."It's worth keeping William James's moment of empathy with arthropods in mind during any discussion of the way thoughts and feelings emerge from the brain. Marc Lewis's brilliant ? if not wholly sympathetic ? account of his many mind-bludgeoning drug experiences wears its biological determinism on its sleeve. Our selves are the product of excitation and inhibition in those "fleshy computers we carry around in our skulls", he says. But however true this may be, it is not necessarily useful in the study of...

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