Brain Storm

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John Horgan, who has written for Scientific American since 1986, comments on science on his free online journal Cross-Check. He has also posted his books Mind-Body Problems and My Quantum Experiment online. Horgan teaches at Stevens Institute of Technology.

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This article was originally published with the title “Brain Storm” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 271 No. 5 (November 1994), p. 24
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1194-24

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