Are You Out of Your Mind?

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Are You Out of Your Mind?

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44 minutes

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Mar 28, 2013

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How do we know what we know? The brain is an amazing product of evolutionary engineering, but many influences can play with our perceptions.

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Mar 28, 2013

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