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Out-of-body experience: Master of illusion

N. Larsson/AP for Nature It is not every day that you are separated from your body and then stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife. http://www.nature.com/news/out-of-body-experience-master-of-illusion-1.9569
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576642991109496396.html By RAYMOND TALLIS The world of academe is currently in the grip of a strange and worrying ¬epidemic of biologism, which has also captured the popular imagination. Scientists, philosophers and quite a few toilers in the humanities believe—and would have the rest of us believe—that nothing fundamental separates humanity from animality. Biologism has two cardinal manifestations.

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