Anatomy of a Miracle: Decoding the Biological Antenna

You know, usually when we talk about human consciousness, there's this, well, this

unspoken expectation of containment, I guess you could call it. Right, like a closed system.

Exactly.

It's that classic computer analogy we've all been fed since grade school. You know, the

Hardware is right there, encased inside your skull; the software is your thoughts. Yeah, and

The neuroscientists just point to a functional MRI scan, see a little flash of colour, and say,

There it is, that's you.

Right, that's where all the magic happens. We treat the brain as if it were a sealed vault.

It is, it's a very neat, localised idea.

And historically, it's very comforting. You know, we really like our identity, our entire sense

of se ...