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Letter: Mind and body

Published 28 November 2012

From Alan Hayward

Ambitious attempts to copy the human brain (27 October, p 26) omit reference to those long nerves that convey gut feelings. A brain without a body can only be part human- as neurologist Antonio Damasio has argued (27 November 2010, p 50).

Ngaparou, Senegal

Issue no. 2893 published 1 December 2012

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