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What often happens is that you look into something as an amateur historian, or a journalist, and a couple of years later you find it's trickled down into the bit the novels come from. The unconscious. A different ventricle of the heart. Generically fiction is a more intimate form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Martin Amis | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

Starting the next day, the food got worse. Some days there was just a little dry rice with boiled cabbage, others just some boiled sweet potatoes. Hunger became a permanent state, an ever present hollowness. The flesh on my body slowly melted away, my eyesight deteriorated, and simple activities such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

Whether or not Steven Pinker is correct that conscious and unconscious thoughts must be in the brain, the question remains: Where is an idea, an inspiration, an intention before it appears in the brain? It is in the collective consciousness, which our world calls by many names: God, Yahweh, Allah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 12, 2007 | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

Black dogs are deemed the tastiest, and are also said to counter the effects of asthma and to stimulate the libido. Dogs are often cruelly killed - feet bound, clubbed unconscious and then slaughtered with a knife. Sometimes, their blood is drained to be drunk, ostensibly for medicinal reasons. Dog skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Is that Doggie on the Menu? | 1/29/2007 | See Source »

A SECOND REASON THAT INFORMATION MAY BE SEALED OFF FROM consciousness is strategic. Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers has noted that people have a motive to sell themselves as beneficent, rational, competent agents. The best propagandist is the one who believes his own lies, ensuring that he can't leak his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

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