When making our jello-brain, we entombed a tiny lego man in the frontal lobe to capture the idea of an homunculus, or tiny human. Neuroscientists try and avoid implicating this little guy when positing mechanisms of self-control and decision making. Here, my son Ben decided to liberate our lego homunculus whilst eating the left parietal lobe … that’s one way to get rid of the homunculus – just dig in and pull him right out of the brain!
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March 20, 2010 by dendrite
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What is the recipe for the “jello brain” I have the mold, but cannot get the consistency right. Thanks Vicki
Just double the usual amount of gelatin powder!