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1998 : WHAT QUESTIONS ARE YOU ASKING YOURSELF? [1]

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Alun Anderson [5]
Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director), New Scientist; Author, After the Ice
Editor of New Scientist, biologist and author of Science And Technology In Japan

"Is a greater understanding of the way the brain works going to give me a new language to explain what it is like to be me? Will the words we use now one day seem as strange as the 'humours' we once used to explain the state of our bodies? And what will be the consequence if a scientist gains the power to know me better than I can know myself?"

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[5] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/alun_anderson