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Thoughts made visible: where does the mind reside?

29 mins | Jan 21, 2018

Will we ever be able to see and understand the thoughts of others? Noga Arikha, writing in Lapham’s Quarterly, looks at the history of brain imaging and the fantasy of a truly visible mind.

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