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Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside (journals.sagepub.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Carl Sagan’s (1978) Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Dragons of Eden, and Steven Johnson’s (2005) Mind Wide Open were both popular books that drew heavily on this idea, and Sagan’s book played a large role in bringing these ideas to nonacademic audiences.

My god hexbear was literally right about bazinga brains being a blight on society.