How do we know when fact is fact and fiction is fiction? We don’t. A tramp recently pointed this out to me. Our discourse (after he’d stopped muttering about trailer insurance ) went like this:
Me: “Excuse me, but would you please put that away? This is a public place.”
Tramp pauses: “Sorry. That was indeed disgraceful behaviour, I do apologize.”
Me, shrugging: “Ok, well, have a good one.”
Tramp calls back: “Wait, how do you know you just saw Read the rest of this entry »
If I said to you “scientists can now interpret thoughts from a coma patient’s mind and work out what they are actually thinking” I am guessing you would laugh and say “Yeah, right!” (Then you would probably, secretly think: blimey, I hope nobody can read mine or I’ll be right in the ess haych eye tee…)
Only it’s true, worryingly, not even a coma patient is safe. Want to know something else which is amazing? OK, not nearly as Read the rest of this entry »
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