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Suppose Steve Pinker contracts a terrible progressive brain disease that destroys his nervous system from the outside in--he starts going numb and then deaf and blind and unable to control his muscles. But then neuroscience comes to the rescue, replacing each portion of his nervous system as it disintegrates with a suitably interfaced prosthesis made of silicon and wire...
...Grind,” I dissolved into Beck’s baby-blue eyes. It felt as if, in the middle of the MTV studios, at the heart of New York City, with three cameras and countless PR agents looking on, Beck and I became one. My fingertips were numb with ecstasy...
Still, most of the young alums appeared to have arrived at roughly the same idea of what it would take to numb the cold...
...friend of mine woke me up this morning with the terrible news that Hui had passed away. My sleepy mind went numb, and I couldn’t believe what was going on; I refused to accept the tragic revelation that a friend of mine had suddenly died...
...powerful get short-circuited from their power base. Too often, people whose job it is to lead by listening have the tendency to go politically deaf in times of crisis - to proceed as if nothing had happened, to sleepwalk in a state of bland or numb denial...