Diane Ackerman Metaphors

In the An Alchemy of the Mind, Diane Ackerman employs Metaphors, personification, and point of view, to reveal the thaumaturgy and wonder behind the nature of the brain.
Thaumaturgy is the wonders of working miracles.she represents the brain as almost an entity that resides within us to look over our decisions and guide us.diane uses metaphors to empower this idea “the petit tyrant””a huddle of neurons” etc. This ideology alone shows that not only does the author see the brain as “them”, but as there own entity as if the brain itself chooses your thoughts such as a tyrant would which concurs to push the reader to think the same process. The brain is unable of being its own entity by all means of science;however the author only seeks this as