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My BBC Future column from a few days ago. The original is here. I’m donating the fee from this article to Wikipedia. Read the column and it should be obvious why. Perhaps you should too: dona... 
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No one can remember everything, and the Web can be a great mind-expanding device.
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Brain scans of karate experts show that there are subtle differences in certain areas of brain that probably enables them to punch harder from a very close range.
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Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and their relations are explored by Germanphilosopher and cognitive scientist Metzinger. Extensively working with neuroscientists he has come to the conclusion that, in fact, there is no such thing as a "self" -- that a "self" is simply the content of a model created by our brain - part of a virtual reality we create for ourselves.
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Our minds are made up just as much by the people and tools around us as they are by the brain cells inside our skull.