Leonard L., speaking for them all, wrote at the end of his autobiography: ‘I am a living candle. I am consumed that you may learn. New things will be seen in the light of my suffering.
It remains, for me, the most powerful and elegant explanation of how we humans and our brains construct our very individual selves and worlds.
It is often felt that Darwin, more than anyone, banished meaning from the world—in the sense of any overall divine meaning or purpose. There is indeed no design, no plan, no blueprint in Darwin’s worl...
It is making severe demands on the unity of the personality to try and make me identify myself with the author of the paper on the spinal ganglia of the Petromyzon. Nevertheless it does seem to be the...
In the course of a short city-block this frantic old woman frenetically caricatured the features of forty or fifty passers-by, in a quick-fire sequence of kaleidoscopic imitations, each lasting a seco...
I often dream... of my parents and of my former patients - all long gone but loved and important in my life.
I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays.
He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment.
For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill--not well. Unless, as George Eliot doe...
Far commoner, and perhaps the most intolerable of all aura symptoms, is intense sudden vertigo accompanied by staggering, overwhelming nausea, and frequently vomiting. The
Du Bois Reymond spoke of a general feeling of disorder at the very start of his attacks, and other patients speak, simply, of feeling unsettled. In this unsettled state one may feel hot or cold, or bo...
Ci ricordano che siamo sovrasviluppati in fatto di competenza meccanica, ma manchiamo di intelligenza, intuizione, consapevolezza biologiche; ed è questo, soprattutto, che dobbiamo riguadagnare, non s...
But after my fall and my near death, fear and caution
At eighty, one can take a long view and have a vivid, lived sense of history not possible at an earlier age.
And one day the mind leaps from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God.
Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician - but they would recognize the brain of a professional musician without moment's hesitation.
After a while the scene started to fade, and I became dimly conscious, once more, that I was in London, stoned, hallucinating Agincourt on the sleeve of my dressing gown. It
One newsmagazine, in 1987, defined them, half facetiously, as cognitively infectious musical agents.)
تصاب الحيوانات بالمرض, و لكن الإنسان فقط يمرض جذرياًanimals get diseases, but only man falls radically into sickness.
إذا أردنا أن نعرف فلاناً فنحن نسأل : ما قصته - قصته الحقيقية الأعمق ؟ - لأن كل واحد منا هو سيرة وقصة . كل واحد منا هو حكاية فريدة يتم تركيبها باستمرار ودون وعي بواسطتنا ومن خلالنا وفينا من خلال إدرا...