21 February

Supposedly rational people can believe the strangest things. This one always amazes me - that we think our brains are containers inside which our thoughts and memories and perceptions live. Seriously - if you have a physical brain in front of you, how on Earth would it ever contain those things? How do you get a memory or an image into a lump of meat? It’s such a bizarre belief that it still floors me every day that it’s so common.