Suzanne Menghraj at Guernica writes about disembodied heads and the presence of mind in the absence of brain:
“And yet here I am despite all the impossibilities, eerily enchanted by the thought of a mind having such control over its body that it might exercise that control without the necessary neural pathways, not to mention a few other essentials. I imagine neurons firing and surprised to find that their impulses reach now distant targets, oxygen carried to muscles along invisible corridors.”
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