The brain doesn’t tolerate inactivity, said Oliver Sacks, when I spoke to him about this back in 2014. It seems to respond to diminished sensory input by creating autonomous sensations of its own choo...
I was reminded of something Oliver Sacks once said: To truly understand someone, to get any hint of one’s depth, you need to lay aside the urge to test and get to know your subject openly, quietly, as...