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Drastic questioning and investigation of the varieties of consciousness that we and other animals (and maybe aliens) share became a recurrent trope in the 1970s.
…one second before the solution popped into their heads, the visual cortex at the back of the head… briefly switched itself to a kind of “offline” state. The explanation for this, known as an “alpha blink,” is that visual cortex shuts off incoming information for just long enough to allow the solution to a problem to pop through…. It take visual information out of the equation and lets the rest of the brain take that share of the available thinking power.
Caroline Williams , 2017, p. 124
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In Smith’s “The Game of Rat and Dragon,” October 1955, Galaxy.
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This is the term employed on the inside jacket flap blurb, but was evidently proposed by Harding.
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We can be sure of this, because Wilson himself tells us in a Preface to The Mind Parasites that his scene of battle with mind parasites is a tour de force…
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A splendidly insightful and scholarly analysis of these elements and their transformation is found in Snake’s Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley (2003) edited by Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi.
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Broderick, D. (2018). Radically Different Minds. In: Consciousness and Science Fiction. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00599-3_7
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