Post AsD2pc0lGZmV9Wl8a0 by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
 (DIR) More posts by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
 (DIR) Post #AsD2WeQI4jRZ89ev6O by ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-03-19T09:30:04Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       "The brain is the only part of the body that named itself." -- Source?
       
 (DIR) Post #AsD2WfgzM8OX4ETllg by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-03-19T10:15:40Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       not lex friedman, for sure. He tweeted in late 2020.  But on March 9, 2020 we have"Go Inside Your Mind at Glasgow Science Centre’s Science LatesThe brain is the only organ that named itself."I think it has to be much earlier - I would guess Pinker, Dawkins, Sagan, maybe even Jonathan Miller - but I can't find a citation.https://web.archive.org/web/20200805142227/https://sourcemagazine.org.uk/go-inside-your-mind-at-glasgow-science-centres-science-lates/@ColinTheMathmo
       
 (DIR) Post #AsD2pc0lGZmV9Wl8a0 by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-03-19T10:19:10Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       at least 8 years ago, June 2016, in comments on this facebook memehttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154640739324769&id=71760664768&set=a.10150198151749769@ColinTheMathmo
       
 (DIR) Post #AsD2uMpd8BA3WQouga by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-03-19T10:20:02Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       12 years ago on reddithttps://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/1dyvt9/the_brainnamed_itself/@ColinTheMathmo
       
 (DIR) Post #AsDior1QASxVUbOBBQ by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-03-19T18:09:38Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       slightly different idea from a 1995 book "rethinking knowledge""It is no wonder that the question of knowledge holds such perennial fascination for human thought: Why else has the species named itself homo sapiens?"https://search.worldcat.org/title/622980075@ColinTheMathmo