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Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets — and the Plot That Undermines It
What happens when a thriller tries to argue that some mysteries have no mechanism at all?In The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown sends Robert Langdon through Prague in pursuit of a conspiracy built around consciousness, near-death experiences, secret intelligence programs and the possibility that the mind may exist beyond the brain. Katherine Solomon believes the brain may be less a generator of consciousness than a filter — one that narrows something much larger.But Brown has spent his career writing stories in which every mystery eventually has an explanation.This episode looks at the strange…
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