Oliver Sax Died

[Jenny A]

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brain’s strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” using his patients’ disorders as starting points for eloquent meditations on consciousness and the human condition, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/scienc...uirks.html

I can't believe there will be no more Sax books commenting on how are mind works and more often what happens when it doesn't:

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination. And we are familiar with the landscapes of our own imagination, our inscapes. We’ve lived with them all our lives. But there are also hallucinations as well, and hallucinations are completely different. They don’t seem to be of our creation. They don’t seem to be under our control. They seem to come from the outside, and to mimic perception.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/oliver-sacks-quotes

I learned the proprioception from him and a dozen interesting things about the way the mind works.

[vorlon13]

There's a connection between one of his cases and the movie Memento.

If any of you have not seen Memento, it's worth a watch; you'll either love it or hate it, you'll never forget it, unlike Leonard Shelby.

LOL, I have a uniquely weird interpretation of Memento I've not seen noted anywhere else . . .