io9 | by Charlie Jane Anders | Fri, Oct 16
Fri, Oct 16
When you're a brain in a tank, you've got a lot of time to think about stuff. And one of the things you ponder is: how many kinds of disembodied brains does science fiction have? The answer: six!
Star Wars features the B'omarr monks, whose brains live in jars, but sometimes spider droids carry...
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