Listening to Jim’s neural activity – pop!pop!pop! – it’s impossible not to be awed. After all, this is what every decision in the history of our species sounded like. Every marriage proposal, every declaration of war, every leap of the imagination, every mission launched into the unknown, every act of kindness, every lie, every euphoric breakthrough, every decisive moment. It all happened right here, in the darkness of the skull, emerging from patterns of activity in networks of biological cells.
