Making sense of your mind
I first published this article in Feb 2010. A lot has changed since then... The human brain has long been called the last frontier of science, and by most accounts the mind remains a mystery. Given that our brain regulate every aspect of our life experience and our mind is at a loss without it you may be surprised to know that until recently we knew very little about it. Given that technology has advanced to the level that we can study it in action you may think we know more, but it seems we're more at a loss than ever before. From understanding the difference between emotional and neutral memories, to finding why people in a happy mood will almost always choose the first of any available choices given, all the way through to the role of emotions in determining self bias and the recent shocking discovery that morals are nothing less than conclusions and deductions to defend our actions. Take the recent discovery that imagination takes place in the same region of the br...