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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
The Michael Shermer Show
Is Your Brain a Tool?
In the case of frankenstein, as i talk about in the book, it hasn't a technology in it which has been tested scientifically. It's obvious and intuitive when you watch a certain kind of horror story, is it triggers these fiter flight responses. For algernon, it seems to me that the effect it had for you was the ability to kind of unlock a certain kind of grief and mourning. But i think that your brain might be the more important thing in the equation here. Kno schools think about literature differently than our brain does.
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