"Einstein’s Brain Arrives in London After Odd Journey"

[JackLuis]

Odd headlines attract attention.

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Albert Einstein’s preserved brain has crossed the Atlantic for the first time. It’s a journey that one of the 20th century’s greatest minds never intended.

Strange story but a great quote at the end.

And while Einstein would probably be furious that his brain ended up on a slide in a case in London, he would agree with Kwint’s point. He once said that a human being “experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”