Phantoms in the Brain

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Human nature and the architecture of the mind. Combining gripping stories and cutting-edge science, Ramachandran, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, pushes back medicine's last great frontier - the human mind - to address some of the big questions: What is the self? How do we perceive the world outside us? Why do we laugh?