Posts by alethea
I Sing the Body Electric
In the 1990 film Awakenings, based on Oliver Sacks’s memoir of the same name, a patient named Lucy Fishman (Alice Drummond), although in a semi-catatonic state, suddenly catches a ball when it’s thrown to her. It’s a wonderful scene. But, according to this model, it isn’t the “will” of the ball that Lucy is borrowing; it’s…
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