Right Brain Left Brain
“I know what you’re thinking, I can tell just by looking at you.” I say again to the cat, who has no respect for my human wishes and expects me to leave my desk to feed him. You are undoubtedly the most terrible companion with whom any cat has ever lived, he thinks Kim Jong-un would be more loving and caring than you are, he thinks I should have gone with that nice lady next door when she left to spend winter in Florida, she gives me sardines when you’re not looking, he thinks. Then with his tail aloft he leaves the room. This isn’t over yet he thinks.
But what of Dean’s picture, what if we really could see what others were thinking? Like an app that projects the inner mind on to the skin of our fore heads. This is version 1, a simple calendar of thought. Dean will think about science things at work and art things to relax. Or could it be the other way around, already I can see potential problems of interpretation. Would wrinkles make it harder to see what older people thought? Would teenagers all fringe their faces in curtains of heavy hair? What about all those baldly lying politicians, how could their careers survive?
The cat is back. You think you know what I think about; food, comfort and the thrill of tearing a rodent to shreds, but actually I have been busy composing a theory of pure scientific genius. Now I have decided you should stop writing and come and feed me. I try to think about Dean’s picture and to draw my thoughts on to my face, but the cat can already read them and is on his way to the kitchen.
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