ISBN: 0385352573 9780385352574

Category: Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience

Page count: 256

<b>From the bestselling author of <i>The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, </i>a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.<br><br>"Curious, avid and thrillingly fluent." —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>In the pieces that comprise <i>The River of Consciousness</i>, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age. The questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. <br><br><i>The River of Consciousness </i>demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human.