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A review by socraticgadfly
Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology by Paul Broks
5.0
Other reviewers have noted it's unfair to compare Broks to Sachs, and I agree.
That said, per the "philosophy" angle he brings, I will compare him to somebody else - Dan Dennett.
Some of the essays in this book remind me of some of Dennett's early stuff, like in the book co-written and co-edited with Douglas Hofstadter, "The Mind's I."
Broks' tales in here are less about the patient, in part being a clinical psychologist, and more along the line of philosophical Gedankenexperimenten, or, to use Dennett's phrase, "intuition pumps."
That said, Broks is far more a poet than Dennett, and may just surpass Sacks in that regard too.
I note that this won a Guardian "First Book" award.
Please, Mr. Broks, let's follow up with a second and more.
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That said, per the "philosophy" angle he brings, I will compare him to somebody else - Dan Dennett.
Some of the essays in this book remind me of some of Dennett's early stuff, like in the book co-written and co-edited with Douglas Hofstadter, "The Mind's I."
Broks' tales in here are less about the patient, in part being a clinical psychologist, and more along the line of philosophical Gedankenexperimenten, or, to use Dennett's phrase, "intuition pumps."
That said, Broks is far more a poet than Dennett, and may just surpass Sacks in that regard too.
I note that this won a Guardian "First Book" award.
Please, Mr. Broks, let's follow up with a second and more.
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