If you could have anyone's brain for a day...

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...other than your own, whose would you pick? Why?

Tim Burton's. I'm very fascinated with the way his mind works, seems how four of his movies are major special interests for me.

I'd have Albert Einstein's brain for a day. I'd like to have the mind of a genus for a day, instead of the mind of a slow drummer, just to experience AS from a different angle. I love the way my mind works and I think it's cute and funny how my friends call me Mick, because I don't use my head as often as I should. I just think it would be interesting to have the brain of an aspie who did use his head for 24 hours, to compare the differences as an experiment.

the late elizabeth edwards' mind was one i'd be very happy to have been able to at least borrow. now she is in heaven and i still need her brain as it was.

I would want to try the brain of a friend of mine, so that I could learn how he experiences everything.

If I were to pick a famous person, I think perhaps I would choose the Dalai Lama or any enlightened Buddhist monk, so that I might experience (and, presumably, be motivated by) the effects of a lifetime of meditation and compassion.

It would be fascinating to borrow the brain of a bat. Does a bat process what it hears through echo location as if it were a visual sensation? Does it experience what we think of as sound as what we think of as images?

If I had to borrow a human brain, it would be interesting to borrow someone's who had undergone certain types of isolated brain damage; a split brain where one hemisphere does not communicate with the other, or where memory or language processing is impaired. It would be neat to have first hand experience of these radically different experiences of reality.

If I had to pick a specific individual, I might be inclined to borrow Beethoven's (although it might be a bit worse for wear at this point) Anyway, I have no understanding of music, but I love Beethoven's music. I would love to have some brief understanding of what it is like to think musically. Of course, I might be very unwilling to give it up afterward.

i read that there is indeed a quasi-visual aural matrix cognitively superimposed over the bat's normal visual field, forming an additional luminance-sense. additional perceptual senses are added to the brain's 3-dimensional virtual matrix of perceiving/locating objects in space, whether this extra sense is aurally-based as in echolocating animals, or based on having a wider palette of visual frequencies such as with snakes with their infra-red-sensing "pit" organ. experiments done with blind humans showed activity in the brain's vision center when an experimental visual field matrix tactile transducer was attached to their tongues.

definitely my mother's... i've been dying to have just one day inside her brain for as early as i can remember. Next in line would be Einstein... and then probably a Buddhist monk. My mom wins hands down though.

One of my NT friends, Kiefer Sutherland to live in Jack Bauer's shoes for a day, and Larry David's brain as well.

Warren Buffett's, the reason is fairly self-explanatory.

I'd like to try Paris Hilton's brain (though actually I think she's probably actually quite smart)

Some kind of airhead would be interesting.

I'd also like to try a super left biased brain. I'd spend the day doing math, like I can't do now.

I'd like to try a stereotypically 'male' brain, and a stereotypically 'female' brain.

I would want my son's brain. I'm neurotypical and he is on the autism spectrum. I get so frustrated at times wondering why he does the things he does, so it would be amazing to actually experience the world the way he does. What a trip...

I would want to borrow Stevie Wonder's brain, only for the music.

Willard's. I need to write a letter like he wrote in relation to our disability.