Forget about The Manchurian Candidate or I, Robot. While reporting this month’s cover story, “The Myth of Mind Control” (page 40), John Horgan became convinced that the human brain is so complex, dynamic, and adaptable that it is unlikely that our world will ever be ruled by cyborgs. “Every brain has its own private idiosyncratic code, and that can never be broken,” he says. “That’s not necessarily a bad thing.” Horgan is also the author of The End of Science (Broadway Books, 1996), The Undiscovered Mind (Free Press,1999), and Rational Mysticism (Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
“Our differences from each other, and our imperfections, should make it impossible to decode the brain completely,” says Mirko Ilić, who created the cover and opening illustrations for “The Myth of Mind Control.” Ilić was born in Bosnia and studied art in Croatia (formerly Yugoslavia) before moving to New York in 1986. His work has appeared ...
