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brains give rise to our ability to form relationships and make life meaningful. Sometimes, they break.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
As author Lynne McTaggart reports: “Their motor skills might be impaired, and they might stagger disjointedly along, but the rats always remembered the routine”39 [emphasis in original]. Dr. Lashley was unable to show where in the brain memories were stored because he destroyed everything and yet the rats could still remember the routine. How could
... See moreMark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
amazon.com
The person with the hemianopia is only too well aware of what he is missing: the left half of the world still exists for him, he just can’t see it easily. He turns his head so as to bring what he wants to see into the right field of vision. But not so with my patient Mike.
Iain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
a high-functioning Silicon Valley executive suffers from partial seizures in a region within the posteromedial cortex (on the inward-facing side of the cortical hemisphere, along the midline) during which his sense of self is distorted, including his perceived location in space; he eavesdrops on his own thoughts, a form of depersonalization. Direct
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Love, Lunacy, and a Life Fully Lived: Oliver Sacks, the Science of Seeing, and the Art of Being Seen
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
