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All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Siri Hustvedt

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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
Happiness
Brains
Fear
Novels
Dream
Lust
Problem
Math
States
Sadness
Human
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Static
Humans
Problems
Organic
Writing
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Dreaming

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