Book description
How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted?
In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses…
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1 author picked The Mind's Eye as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
For me, thinking about blindness and the brain all started with an essay by Oliver Sacks called “To See and Not See” (An Anthropologist on Mars). In The Mind’s Eye Sacks picks up some of the threads of that earlier essay and goes deep into how seeing is not just a matter of having functioning eyes. From the pianist who could suddenly no longer read music to blind people (like myself) who still consider themselves very visual, these neurological tales are intellectually intriguing and emotionally compelling. Sacks even includes his own journal of vision loss as one of…
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As a retired systems designer who spent decades immersed in the logical world of technology and psychology, I have always been fascinated by the places where cold logic must make room for the unexplained. My life has been a balancing act between the practical and the deeply metaphysical, guided by…
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