
The River of Consciousness
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Narrated by:
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Dan Woren
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Kate Edgar
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By:
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Oliver Sacks
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks' 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 all 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.
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Interesting content, uneven pacing
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Fantastic book
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intriguing storytelling
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Perhaps this is Sacks' most important book but it was not the most interesting or compelling of his books.
This was worth reading, but I would read everything else by Sacks first.
Important but Less Interesting
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Great book. The wrong narrator
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Losses of information through social rejection and scientific ill-preparedness, laments the losses of carefully descriptive observations that have contribute meaningfully to present day science, even when exhumed centuries later.
Characteristically unemotional but always poetic, he describes his experience of recovery from radio pharmaceutical ablation of his melanoma metastatic to liver, his recovery after legs surgery in Switzerland and his experiences of migraines and how these informed his understanding of the experience and mechanism of disease.
He elucidates how, from seemingly humble beginnings, the understanding of the physiology of consciousness is emerging.
Most importantly, he shares a truly final observation that we all lose out when new ideas and evidence are eschewed by rigid minds and egos that perceive self destruction rather than curiosity and the potential for growth in the face of the unexpected.
Dr.Sacks’ death is a tragedy for us all, but we can rejoice that he left many of his thoughts on paper, to be enjoyed by all who are curious and open to new ways of understanding the world.
Essential Scientific overview and philosophical topics naughts
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so much information
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Brilliance
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Fascinating
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Little Dry
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