Posthuman Blues

Is your brain really necessary?





"The student in question was academically bright, had a reported IQ of 126 and was expected to graduate. When he was examined by CAT-scan, however, Lorber discovered that he had virtually no brain at all."

This isn't the only such case on record. Colin Bennett devotes a chapter to the "absent brain" phenomenon -- and its disturbing implications -- in "Politics of the Imagination," a critical study of Charles Fort.