Saturday, December 12, 2009

Depressing

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/20/2/244

I was looking for that strange case in the ESP enigma where there was a young man missing his prefrontal cortex and I found that. I like the quotation marks around "willed action," acknowledgment either that real will does not actually exist or that that is a name of a region that we don't really understand a bit or both. Or maybe it is just standard practice? Probably not. Most scientists are pretty intelligent.

He sounds like such a depressed and sad young individual. Exposed to a litany of tests and given hard medication and I can't help but read a DFW plot onto the whole thing.

I'm sad. Right now. Yet what makes me the most sad is that I should be happy and that there are those that have it so much worse than me.

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