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As you read this, your mind is active, but your body is still. That’s because computers unleash the mind, but suppress the body.

Art can be an emotional trigger for larger and deeper dialogues. It can blur the boundaries between things, the boundaries between us and the boundaries between the world and self. Still we rarely see art and economy as subjects deeply unified in the same study or mechanism.

In conversation with a stranger, Molaison would initially not display any cognitive impairments, but after just a few turns in the exchange, Molaison would lose the thread, and eventually require a re-introduction to the person he had been talking to.

An appeals court upheld Truong My Lan’s death sentence for bank fraud but suggested she could avoid execution by repaying three-quarters of the money she stole.

One man introduced himself as the head of the public relations department, which he said included “international co-operation” as well as a division for “festival and events management”. Asked what this division did exactly, the civil servant answered, “flags”.

“There’s a department for flags?” Ghazal asked incredulously. 

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In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, each paid attention to a different aspect of the creature. The brain may do something similar by mapping out the qualities of perceptions, experiences and abstract concepts along various dimensions, with the help of the same system that it uses to map out physical spaces.