From The Atlantic:

It was high time to play around. We writers always have lots of pieces in the can -- stories killed for no good reason, pieces we wrote for the hell of it over a crazed weekend. In my case, I realized I had the makings of a short book about the brain. I write a column about neuroscience for  Discover , and earlier this year I also wrote a piece for  Playboy  on some wild-eyed notions of how you'll be able to upload your brain into a computer in the not-too-distant future. Fortunately, both  Discover  and  Playboy carry on the noble tradition of returning the rights to articles to their authors, rather than treating them as work for hire. I could bring together some of these pieces as an eBook and see if it would become something that people might actually want to buy.

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