A box of birds

Fernyhough, Charles, 1968-2013

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If you believe you are just a bundle of nerve cells and neural pathways, with no centre, and no self, does that change the way if feels to fall in love? Neuroscientist Yvonne Churcher has problems in the world beyond her lab. One of her students, James, a dangerously attractive anti-science protestor, has set out to challenge her entire philosophy about how the brain works. His friend, Gareth, a brilliant, unstable computer genius, is obsessed with the biochemical basis of memory. When he tries to persuade Yvonne to get involved with a plan to stimulate memory artificially, it sets of a chain of events involving unscrupulous biotech companies, stolen brain-mapping data and a strange brand of eco-terrorism.