The River of Consciousness

Posted on 17 April 2017 by Oliver Sacks

From the best selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, andMusicophilia,a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks s passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders autism, Tourette s syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude Sacks, an Oxford educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human. Download The River of Consciousness By Oliver Sacks – kino-fada.fr I have found that as I ve read books written later in Sacks life, his tone shifts from a focus on specific details to aabstract and comprehensive overview that delvesinto the meanings of his life s observations The River of Consciousness was, for me, an excellent culmination of that change in tone and focus Sacks writes about all areas of science with such grace and art that you can t help but be completely consumed There were moments in The River of Consciousness, especially tow I have found that as I ve read books written later in Sacks life, his tone shifts from a focus on specific details to aabstract and comprehensive overview that delvesinto the meanings of his life s observations The River of Consciousness was, for me, an excellent culmination of that change in tone and focus Sacks writes about all areas of science with such grace and art that you can t help but be completely consumed There were moments in The River of Consciousness, especially towards the ...A fairly mixed bag of variable quality Essays on Darwin, Time, Freud, andAll were beautifully written and superficially interesting, but never really inspiring and rarely thought provoking I read an essay, stopped momentarily, and then moved onto the next one Yes, I did en...A short collection of previously published essays that make us feel the loss of a person like Oliver Sacks very keenly He loved science and scientific advances in all fields, not just his chosen profession of neuroscience The collection is a bit too eclectic to be was wonderful as something like The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat...Some of the most famous scientists explained by one of them Darwin,Freud, James and Poincar told by Sacks and some other informations about Edelmann and consciousness in the chapter that gives the title to the book Prof Sacks you are deeply missed.Alcuni degli scienziati pi famosi e delle loro scoperte, raccontati da uno di loro Darwin, Freud, James e Poincar pi alcune ulteriori informazioni su Edelmann e la coscienza nel capitolo che da il titolo al libro Prof Sacks quanto ci manchi T Some of the most famous scientists explained by one of them Darwin,Freud, James and Poincar told by Sacks and some other informations about Edelmann and consciousness in the chapter...Coscienza a largo raggio.Oliver Sacks is the most approachable genius one could encounter while studying the human brain and its behaviors This book is sublime.This is yet another marvellous book to add the the shelf of other titles from the late Dr Oliver Sachs.The Forward tells of a television documentary called A Glorious Accident which gathered together a biologist, a physicist, a palaeontologist, a historian of science, a philosopher and Dr Sachs What shone through was Sachs ability to move fluidly between all of the disciplines represented That is where this book sits, moving easily between sciences and the traits of the human brain We cons This is yet another marvellous book to add the the shelf of other titles from the late Dr Oliver Sachs.The Forward tells of a television documentary called A Glorious Accident which gathered together a biologist, a physicist, a palaeontologist, a historian of science, a philosopher and Dr Sachs What shone through was Sachs ability to move fluidly between all of the disciplines represented That is where this book sits, moving easily between sciences and the traits of the human brain We consider the less know aspects of Darwin the botanist and Freud the neurologist, and finally we a fascinated by the idea of scotoma, from the Greek word meaning a darkness, or in many cases the loss of an idea which someone had put forward but no one had picked up on or taken forwards It is an idea the reoccurs throughout the ten ...Wissenschaftshistorische Essays zum Thema Bewusstsein, Neurologie, Biologie, Psychologie von Oliver Sacks vorz glichst aufbereitet Leider wird es wohl kaum noch ein weiteres posthum ver ffentlichtes Buch von ihm geben.A highly interesting, multifaceted essay collection Sacks s magpie mind is well represented here, a series of essays that discussthan their subject matter without ever getting too arcane Fascinating to read about Freud s evolution from neurology to psychotherapy, or the nature of visual consciousness, or to consider what Sacks calls Scotoma dark spots in the field of vision in scientific knowledge And underneath all of those explorations, a deep joy in the possibilities of creation, e A highly interesting, multifaceted essay collection Sacks s magpie mind is well represented here, a series of essays that discussthan their subject matter without ever getting too arcane Fascinating to read about Freud s evolution from neurology to psychotherapy, or the nature of visual consciousness, or to consider what Sacks calls Scotoma dark spots in the field of vision in scientific knowledge And underneath all of those explorations, a deep joy in the possibilities of creation, evolution, and art Sacks says There is no way by which the events of the world can be directly transmi...Another fascinating study of human consciousness Sacks describes sentience in lower order animals and in plants He studies illnesses such as Tourettes and Parkinsons He leads the reader on a journey of the history of scientific ideas and educates us through story telling.

17 April 2017

Oliver Sacks