How Many Minds Can Henry James Cram in a Single Paragraph?
‘The Ambassadors’ and the Neuroscience of Novels
The human mind is a marvel. Though sealed within the skull, it reaches far beyond, sensing what it can and imagining what it cannot.
At any given moment our minds run silent simulations of the world around us. What will happen if . . . ? We’re constantly projecting possibilities, drawing on memory and intuition to gauge reality and guess what might unfol…
