"Let me get this straight, Ms. Isikov, a female voice said calmly. "Are you saying that we don't think with our brains?
"Well, yes and no. I think that our consciousness exists in this nonlocalized quantum circulation that arises from the presence of a brain, and that the electro-chemical activity we see in the brain " the things we can measure with an EEG or an fMRI -- is how that consciousness interacts with the world through the medium of a body.
The line remained silent, so Daugherty asked if the caller was still there.
She laughed. "Sorry. I was just sitting here with my mouth hanging open. Because if what you claim is true, Ms. Isikov, then a whole gamut of parapsychic phenomena is going to have to be re-examined.
"I hadn't really thought about it. But then I'm hardly the kind of person to ask about that sort of thing. I'm just trying to understand the physics of it.
Daugherty thanked the caller, speculated aloud on what sort of follow-up interviews he ought to schedule, and signaled Jason to go to commercial. When nothing happened, he turned to look into the sound booth, and found Jason struggling with some stranger, who had wrapped the cord around his neck and was attempting to strangle him. He told Paula to call 911 as he was standing up, and lunged for the sound booth door. The stranger released his grip on Jason and pushed Daugherty back into the studio.
"Sit down, both of you, he said angrily, tossing Jason, who was coughing and unwrapping the cord, into the small room as well. "You're not going to cut me off this time.
Daugherty looked at the man, who wore what appeared to be the work shirt from a local welding shop, and then nodded. "You were on the phone earlier, weren't you.
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