George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens*

Eurythmics; Take That; Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado, Soshy

Author with statue of Orwell at BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London

I first read George Orwell’s 1984 while in hospital for a minor operation in my early teens. It horrified me at the time, and it continues to exert a powerful hold on my imagination. It is justly celebrated as possibly the most important political novel of the 20th Century, …