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| e5fc403 | Where perception of objects is concerned, Edelman likes to say, the world is not "labeled"; it does not come "already parsed into objects." We must make our perceptions through our own categorizations. "Every perception is an act of creation," as Edelman says. As we move about, our sense organs take samplings of the world, and from these, maps are created in the brain. There then occurs with experience a selective strengthening of those map.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 4cc0fea | Categorization is the central task of the brain, and reentrant signaling allows the brain to categorize its own categorizations, then recategorize these, and so on. Such a process is the beginning of an enormous upward path enabling ever higher levels of thought and consciousness. Reentrant signaling might be likened to a sort of neural United Nations, in which dozens of voices are talking together, while including in their conversations a .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 7d5c4a7 | Harlan Lane and Franklin Philip have done a great service in making these so readily available to us in The Deaf Experience. Especially moving and important are the 1779 "Observations" of Pierre Desloges--" | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 4256f10 | Darwin himself was evidently puzzled, as he wrote in The Descent of Man: "As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man...they must be ranked among the most mysterious with which he is endowed." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 46b2576 | With others, of whom there were no actual visual memories, there were, at one point, incontinent visual "projections" (perhaps analogous to Wright's auditory "phantasms" and the phantom limbs of amputees: such "sensory ghosts" are created by the brain when it is suddenly cut off from normal sensory input)." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 052c889 | Jimmie pode redimir-se ou reencontrar-se, mesmo que seja apenas por breves instantes, atraves de uma relacao emocional, porque ele sabe que esta perdido. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b1d43a2 | Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement." -- Oliver Sacks" | Todd Hargrove | ||
| ce5b25c | My music is based on touching you in a certain way. I don't have a wall, that's my brand. | Ami Faku | ||
| b7e3112 | When you are being real, there's no one like you, and there's so much power in that. | Ami Faku | ||
| b727ca7 | I found the Guam visit very important at a human level, too. While the postencephalitic patients had been put away for decades, living in a hospital, often abandoned by their families, people with lytico-bodig remained part of their family, part of their community, to the end. This drove home to me how barbaric our own medicine and our own customs are in the "civilized" world, where we put ill or demented people away and try to forget them... | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 2fe9c4d | When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate--the genetic and neural fate--of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. | gratitude inspirational life | Oliver Sacks | |
| 773f9c2 | Most of the ingredients she cooked with came from the tiny farm immediately behind the restaurant. It was so small that the Pertinis could shout from one end of it to another, but the richness of the soil meant that it supported a wealth of vegetables, including tomatoes, zucchini, black cabbage, eggplant and several species that were unique to the region, including bitter and fragrant . There was also a small black boar called Garibaldi.. | farm-animals italian-food milk mozzarella vegetables | Anthony Capella | |
| c4b4bad | If one loses half the visual field from a stroke or other injury, one may or may not be aware of the loss. Monroe Cole, a neurologist, became aware of his own field loss only by doing a neurological exam on himself after his coronary bypass surgery. He was so surprised by his lack of awareness of this deficit that he published a paper about it. "Even intelligent patients," he wrote, "often are surprised when a hemianopia is demonstrated, de.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c1b5858 | My father called swimming "the elixir of life," and certainly it seemed to be so for him: he swam daily, slowing down only slightly with time, until the grand age of ninety-four. I hope I can follow him, and swim till I die." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| f9949fd | It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| fbcdad2 | There are similar irrefutable beliefs in patients who lose the perception of their left side and the left side of space but maintain that there is nothing missing, even though we can demonstrate convincingly that they live in a hemi-universe. Such syndromes--so-called anosognosias--occur only with damage to the right half of the brain, which seems to be especially concerned with the sense of bodily identity. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 24b24e6 | But science is a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhoods. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 2142857 | Adler studied a group of Hmong refugees from Laos who had immigrated to central California in the late 1970s and were not always able to perform their traditional religious rites during the upheaval of genocide and relocation. In Hmong culture, there is a strong belief that night-mares can be fatal; this evil expectation, or nocebo, apparently contributed to the sudden unexplained nocturnal deaths of almost two hundred Hmong immigrants (mos.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| e5e58ea | 'n 'tjrW' w'w'kWd... b'nn l shy sw~ Hzm@ 'w mjmw`@ mn Hsst mkhtlf@ ttb` b`Dh b`Dan bsr`@ l ymkn tSwWurh, wbtdfWq wHrk@ dy'mayn. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 5b1c6be | wnhy@ kl stkshfn stkwn lwSwl l~ Hyth bd'n wm`rf@ lmkn llmr@ l'wl~. (lywt) | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 7aff2f4 | 'nt lmwsyq~ Tlm tstmr lmwsyq~ (lywt) | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c1943b0 | Es usted desgraciado? --continue. --No puedo decir que lo sea. --?Disfruta de la vida? --No puedo decir que disfrute... Vacile, con miedo a estar yendo demasiado lejos, a estar desnudando a un hombre hasta dejar al descubierto alguna desesperacion oculta, inadmisible, insoportable. --No disfruta usted de la vida --repeti, un poco titubeante-- . ?Como se siente usted, entonces, respecto a la vida? --No puedo decir que sienta nada. --?Pero se.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| e2701b6 | 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 they live and think and pursue their own life. There, he said, is where you will find something exceedingly mysterious at work. | Helen Thomson | ||
| b8320a5 | Times of stress throughout my life have led me to turn, or return, to the physical sciences, a world where there is no life, but also no death. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 4285c00 | m` kl khTw@, wkl tqdWum, ttWs` afq lmr, wykhTw khrj `lmin mnkmsh; `lm lm ydrk 'nh kn mnkmshan l~ hdh lHdW. lqd wjdt hdh fy kl Hql, fsywlwjyan wwjwdyan. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 024e32b | I am now face to face with dying, but I am not finished with living. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 3fc5758 | Thus the primal, animal sense of 'the other,' which may have evolved for the detection of threat, can take on a lofty, even transcendent function in human beings, as a biological basis for religious passion and conviction, where the 'other,' the 'presence,' becomes the person of God. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| a66b7f0 | The terrors of suffering, sickness and death, of losing ourselves and losing the world, are the most elemental and intense we know; and so too are our dreams of recovery and rebirth, of being wonderfully restored to ourselves and the world. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| e04c29d | Biologica, fisiologicamente, no somos distintos unos de otros; historicamente, como narraciones... somos todos unicos. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 2d37bbc | You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing . . . | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 3dca095 | In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical 'therapy' to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 5f27352 | Though I revere good writing and art and music, it seems to me that only science, aided by human decency, common sense, farsightedness, and concern for the unfortunate and the poor, offers the world any hope in its present morass. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b6028c3 | There is, among Orthodox Jews, a blessing to be said on witnessing the strange: one blesses God for the diversity of his creation, and one gives thanks for the wonder of the strange. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 6b7e968 | She has no words, and we lack words too. And society lacks words, and sympathy, for such states. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 87066fa | At times the conviction of my want of being myself was overwhelming and most painful. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| bdcd613 | She has succeeded in operating, but not in being. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 7f325c3 | We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves n a larder, but transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorised with every act of recollection. ~Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks | Paula Hawkins | ||
| 9aa81aa | 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 choosing." | Helen Thomson | ||
| e667e9b | I do not think of old age as an ever grimmer time that one must somehow endure and make the best of, but as a time of leisure and freedom, freed from the factitious urgencies of earlier days, free to explore whatever I wish, and to bind the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime together. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 4493485 | Neurologically, OBEs are a form of bodily illusion arising from a temporary dissociation of visual and proprioceptive representations--normally these are coordinated, so that one views the world, including one's body, from the perspective of one's own eyes, one's head. OBEs, as Henrik Ehrsson and his fellow researchers in Stockholm have elegantly shown, can be produced experimentally, by using simple equipment--video goggles, mannequins, ru.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 0b9c87e | Only in the realm of mishearing--at least my mishearings--can a biography of cancer become a biography of Cantor (one of my favorite mathematicians), tarot cards turn into pteropods, a grocery bag into a poetry bag, all-or-noneness into oral numbness, a porch into a Porsche, and a mere mention of Christmas Eve a command to "Kiss my feet!" | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 989ca78 | But one almost always emerges gradually from a coma; there are intermediate stages of consciousness. It is in these transitional stages, where consciousness of a sort has returned, but not yet fully lucid consciousness, that NDEs tend to occur. Alexander | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 0a1bba6 | But we know from the experience of Tony Cicoria and many others that a hallucinatory journey to the bright light and beyond, a full-blown NDE, can occur in twenty or thirty seconds, even though it seems to last much longer. Subjectively, during such a crisis, the very concept of time may seem variable or meaningless. The one most plausible hypothesis in Dr. Alexander's case, then, is that his NDE occurred not during his coma, but as he was .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b9d51a6 | To deny the possibility of any natural explanation for an NDE, as Dr. Alexander does, is more than unscientific--it is antiscientific. It precludes the scientific investigation of such states. | Oliver Sacks |