false <![CDATA[A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168280453m/31554.jpg 31554 2 A brilliant, wryly humorous, brief tour of the human mind built on first hand experience with patients and a dazzling research career. This long awaited new book by V.S. Ramachandran is akin to the bestselling works about patients by Oliver SacksWhat is body image? Why do we blush? What is art? What is free will? What is self? Until recently, these questions were the province of philosophy, but studies of the brain are now producing explanations based on research anyone can see for themselves in PET scans and MRI images. Neuroscientists such as V.S. Ramachandran are now unlocking the key to what many have considered the metaphysics of our consciousness. This knowledge of the brain has progressed so rapidly few have yet recognized it for what it is. It will change how we think of human beings, even our very notion of understanding. This is a revolution, already underway that will have impact on all our lives. But until this book, topics such as art, creativity and love have received very little attention from neurology and new findings have not been offered in an approachable way. Dr. Ramachandran presents new theories and experiments that illuminate the biggest questions we can ask. Picking up where the great earlier thinkers like Freud, and Darwin began, V.S. Ramachandran and his colleagues are forging a whole new science. Walk through a final frontier of human knowledge with the perfect, eloquent, expert guide on this unique brief tour. 31790 2004 A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers total:169|5:59|4:62|3:40|2:5|1:3| 169 676 325 38 4 1 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:35:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:53:10 -0700 2009 António R. Damásio, although Ramachandran has more of an adventurous and specula...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 08:32:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 01:22:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 16:51:56 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 16:56:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 15:00:25 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 15:49:32 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 07:03:18 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 07:06:10 -0800 2009 Phantoms in the Brain soon, and wish I could find a copy of The Artful Brain to read more on neuroaesthetics.
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You skipped, foot to foot, across topics! Explaining two different syndromes in two paragraphs! And they were very short paragraphs, mind you!! I wish to convey to you the lack of beauty and climactic scenes that were so ready to bloom and yet you ju...more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 13:26:44 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 18:44:15 -0700 2009 Phantoms in the Brain - synesthesia, Capgras, Cotard's, phantom limbs - but is only about half as long and much less detailed. Secondly because Ramachandran presents a lit...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 11 13:46:43 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 15 15:09:41 -0700 2009 Phantoms in the Brain, you need to read it. And I know you haven’t read it. I just looked at the page for that book and noticed that none of my friends has listed it. What’s up with that?

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I picked this one up because of the author's interactions with WNYC's Radio Lab. He provides very interesting and thoughtful insights on that program, and I was looking forward to diving into the "whys and wherefores" of his trade, his theories...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 07 01:12:49 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 01 08:45:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 13:58:19 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 21:06:33 -0800 2008 I really like how well the author combines and connects philosophy and neurology. He touches on several concepts that my whacky brain has definitely thought about at one time or another, but that I've never q...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 11 18:46:09 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 18:50:53 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 00:13:32 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 00:05:03 -0700 2009 4 stars but one more additional brownie point since he is a tamilian :-)]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jul 09 15:08:18 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 16:14:41 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 09:28:55 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 09:40:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 06 07:12:01 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 07:14:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 08 11:37:43 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 11:39:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 07:18:16 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 08:39:56 -0800 2009 http://atpftw.blogspot.com/2009/02/brain...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 31 14:03:45 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 09:15:49 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 14:02:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=31554