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Nohwere, Peter A. Alces, Robert M. Sapolsky
Nohwere, Peter A. Alces, Robert M. Sapolsky
William & Mary Law Review
Imagine the frustration of Samuel Butler’s protagonist, Higgs, with the strange society he encounters in Erewhon:
"Was there nothing which I could say to make them feel that the constitution of a person’s body was a thing over which he or she had had at any rate no initial control whatever, while the mind was a perfectly different thing, and capable of being created anew and directed according to the pleasure of its possessor? Could I never bring them to see that while habits of mind and character were entirely independent of initial mental force and early education, the body …