I got a bit stroppy last week when I read yet another study in which some researchers threw a few people into an MRI machine and claimed to have discovered the part of the brain responsible for thinking about the future. Around the same time, another set of researcher found something even more improbable: an area of the brain connected with the urge to shop. While I think there’s some value in trying to figure out where certain kinds of thoughts happen in the brain, there’s got to be some limit. That’s why I wrote a column about how I want to do a series of studies to locate the science fiction center in the brain. I mean, if people can get funded to do experiments that involve imaging people’s brains while they imagine their future birthdays, why not fund a study where people imagine spaceships and aliens? It might turn out that Cory Doctorow’s brain has a really big science fiction center and Darren Aronofsky’s is non-existent (which would explain why his latest SF flick The Fountain sucked so horribly). Read my rant, erm, I mean column.

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