Archive for March, 2007
I’ve been reading Quantum Enigma, recent book by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, published through Oxford. Both of the authors are physics professors, so they might seem like unlikely cognitive science writers, but their explorations of the bridge between physics and consciousness are interesting. The tone of the book is factual, giving brief [...]
The New English Review has a poignant article by Theordore Darlrymple entitled “Do The Impossible: Know Thyself.” With the deluge of editorials, opinion pieces and essays describing how neuroscience is the last vast expanse separating humanity from truly knowing itself. This comes on the heals of Jeffery Rosen’s article in the New York Times Magazine [...]
In my car today I listened to a fantastic NPR piece on H.M., the patient who’s medial temporal lobe was removed in the 1950s to cure his epilepsy. The procedure was a success in that he only has epileptic seizures about once a year now, but this came with what some would argue is the [...]
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