W: What are you doing, Bill Writing a letter
M: Yes, and it’s not easy.
W: My Aunt Mabel sent me a gift for my birthday. I can’t remember which gift was hers, but I want to thank her for it.
M: Oh, that’s a difficult problem. When it happens to me, I just write to say" Thank you for the wonderful girl" without saying what a gift was. Are you with me
W: Yes, thanks. That’s a clever idea.
M: When you have a bad memory, you have to be clever.
W: What are you doing, Bill Writing a letter
M: Yes, and it’s not easy.
W: My Aunt Mabel sent me a gift for my birthday. I can’t remember which gift was hers, but I want to thank her for it.
M: Oh, that’s a difficult problem. When it happens to me, I just write to say" Thank you for the wonderful girl" without saying what a gift was. Are you with me
W: Yes, thanks. That’s a clever idea.
M: When you have a bad memory, you have to be clever.
M: What were you doing when Bill got here
M: I was talking to Ed and Fred.
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W: What are you doing, Bill Writing a letter
M: Yes, and it’s not easy.
W: My Aunt Mabel sent me a gift for my birthday. I can’t remember which gift was hers, but I want to thank her for it.
M: Oh, that’s a difficult problem. When it happens to me, I just write to say" Thank you for the wonderful girl" without saying what a gift was. Are you with me
W: Yes, thanks. That’s a clever idea.
M: When you have a bad memory, you have to be clever.
W: Hey, Bill.What are you doing with the washing machine It’s on, but it’s empty
M: Oh, how stupid.I meant to wash my T-shirts.I was about to put them in when the telephone rang.After that, I simply forgot about it and sat down to watch TV
What are you doing when you aren’t doing anything at all If you said "nothing," then you have just passed a test in logic and failed a test in neuroscience. (46)When people perform mental tasks, different areas of their brains become active, and brain scans show these active areas as brightly colored squares on an otherwise dull gray background. But researchers have recently discovered that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This dark network is off when we seem to be on, and on when we seem to be off. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something. But what
The answer, it seems, is time travel. (47)The human body moves forward in time at the rate of one second per second whether we like it or not, but the human mind can move through time in any direction and at any speed it chooses. Why did evolution design our brains to go wandering in time Perhaps it’s because an experi- ence is a terrib
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