Susan Greenfield (1) (1950–)

A helpful essay tracking human identity back to the brain and its processes. It is more suggestive than definitive, but such is the state of our knowledge.

I didn't manage to get into this one, even though it's the sort of essay that would normally be right up my street. There are certainly interesting elements of it, though, and others will likely find it far more to their taste.

I read about 20% of this book before putting it down. It's too light and fluffy for my liking, and (in the part I read, at least) focuses *significantly more* on things we know now to be incorrect (eg. phrenology) than on anything else.

An older, and probably now out of date overview of the human brain, based on her Christmas lectures from a number of years ago.

It is a straightforward to read, and she explains the concepts well.