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A review by citizenkahn
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran
4.0
From Phantom limbs and neurological disorders the author unwraps what little we know of consciousness and what makes us human. Far from a unified one, our consciousness appears to emerge from the interplay of many simple systems evolved over time and retasked.
The author makes several statements with little evidence (e.g. Apes cannot have a specific disorder relating to loss of self - if we can't communicate then we can't know if apes do have this problem). I think his evidence based insights are useful enough to tolerate a few statements which lack evidence or which cannot be proved.
A really interesting read.
The author makes several statements with little evidence (e.g. Apes cannot have a specific disorder relating to loss of self - if we can't communicate then we can't know if apes do have this problem). I think his evidence based insights are useful enough to tolerate a few statements which lack evidence or which cannot be proved.
A really interesting read.