The River of Consciousness
内容简介
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. (From Amazon)
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作者简介
OLIVER SACKS was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York.
Familiar to the readers of The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, Dr. Sacks spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine," and over the years he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians. His memoir On the Move was published shortly before his death in August 2015.
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目录
Foreword
Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers
Speed
Sentience: The Mental Lives of Plants and Worms
The Other Road: Freud as Neurologist
The Fallibility of Memory
Mishearings
The Creative Self
A General Feeling of Disorder
The River of Consciousness
Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science
Bibliography
Index
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读书文摘
直到1859年《物种起源》出版之后，达尔文才把全部注意力转向植物。他早期主要是一个观察者和收集者，而现在，实验成了他获取新知识的首要方式。
人们有时会说，上帝在细节中——但是，对达尔文而言，不是上帝而是自然选择，经过数百万年的运作，从细节中照显出来，这些细节若非借历史与演化之光便不可测透，毫无意义。
the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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