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To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all pa…

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In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

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Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical halluc…

Oliver Sacks Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Bra… hallucinations music psychology science

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not f…

Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat a… inspirational science

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs w…

Oliver Sacks Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Bra… earworms hypotheses hypothesis music psychology

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics-…

Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradox… biology neurology science

Our tests, our approaches... are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show us powers; they only show us puzzles and schemata, when we need to see music,…

Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat a… neurology science

Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past.

Oliver Sacks Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Bra… science

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I d…

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Waking consciousness is dreaming — but dreaming constrained by external reality

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