The brain, what scientists don't know about it

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Originally Posted by MonCapitan2002

That was one impressive article. I do hope that those scans help doctors treat mental illnesses.

But who decides what is illness and what is normal, normal is determined by a popularity contest, what most people believe is normal is what is accepted as normal, but what if the majority is wrong? Most people at one time believed the Earth was flat and that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Was that the way it was because most people believed it?