The neuroscience of Bob Dylan's genius

How do we have insights, and where does inspiration come from? Jonah Lehrer goes inside Bob Dylan's brain to find outBob Dylan looks bored. It's May 1965 and he's slumped in an armchair at the Savoy hotel in London. The camera filming the documentary Don't Look Back, about Dylan's tour, turns away – Dylan's weariness feels like an accusation – and starts to pan around the room, capturing the ragged entourage of folkies and groupies following the singer on the final week of his European tour....

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