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The River of Consciousness
by Oliver Sacks
Posthumous essays on Darwin, Freud, time, memory, creativity and consciousness. Sacks as a thinker about science itself.
Read it if…
you want Sacks on big ideas.
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Skip it if…
you want case histories.
Try instead: Descartes' Error →
Three things you will actually use
- Memory is reconstructive.
- Science has a history of forgetting.
- Creativity incubates.
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Read the essay on the fallibility of memory.
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