The startling findings of a new scientific study, indicating that many patients in so-called “vegetative states” actually remain conscious, confirm that the brain is a curious organ.
It is even more curious when we look into how different cultures throughout human history have understood it. The ancient Egyptians, for instance, thought that the brain performed the relatively mundane task of cooling the blood. Indeed, when they mummified the body after death, they discarded the brain as apparently unimportant for the afterlife.
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