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Rob Ashton on the Science of Writing

The Informed Life

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Is Your Brain Filling in the Blanks?

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. The rest is being filled in by our brain or by our nervous system,. Our bodies more generally. I can imagine how that would affect how I approach reading. But I wonder how it might Affect How I approach writing.

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