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Patrick House

Patrick House is a neuroscientist and writer. His scientific research focuses on the neuroscience of free will and how mind-control parasites alter their host’s behavior. He writes about science, technology, and culture for The New Yorker.com and Slate. He has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University. He is the author of Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness, out now from St. Martin’s Press.

The Fine Line Between Life and Not Life

If the brain can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality, what can?

October 26, 2022