By Philippa Kelly. Brains tend eventually to shrink and atrophy, edging us further from"or closer to"our true, instinctual responses. It's a lucky few who, to the very end, are cognitively able to match the sum of their remaining parts. "I think, therefore I am" takes on a whole new meaning in this twenty-first century, when the intact minds of human beings"those cores of sentience moderated by reason"will likely be …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:05PM on November 24, 2014