An Anthropologist on Mars
by Oliver Sacks · first published 1995
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Zeven portretten van buitengewone, neurologische patiënten.
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I highly recommend Oliver Sacks' books. I've read "An Anthropologist On Mars" and "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat". In both, he talks about several people who had various brain injuries and their strange consequences. I love his writing: he simultaneously gives a detailed…
on “Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table” ↗…Dueling Neurosurgeons : Sam Keam - http://samkean.com/thetaleoftheduelingneurosurgeons.html Quite liked the writing style - neuroscience book written in a story format Other good books in similar genre An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales : Oliver Sacks http://www.amazon.com/An-Anthropologist-Mars-Seven-Paradoxic... The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science:…
on “Ask HN: What are some good books you have recently read?” ↗This reminds me of "An Anthropologist On Mars" by Oliver Sacks. The first story of seven is of a painter who gets in a car accident. He develops Cerebral achromatopsia[0] and loses the ability to see and think in terms of any colors other than basically…
on “I woke up unable to speak English” ↗…The best we can do is show that the effects of your seeing green are the same as mine (biologically, behaviorally, etc). If you're curious about the broader subject, would highly recommend reading An Anthropologist on Mars.
on “Aphantasia Beginner's Guide” ↗Oliver Sacks book: "An Anthropologist on Mars" covered a case of this happening. There is an interesting writeup with some background at: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/visblind.html
on “Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind” ↗One example can be found in Oliver Sacks' "An Anthropologist on Mars", which has a chapter about a blind man named Virgil who regained his sight in adulthood and it took him a long time to make sense of visual stimuli.
on “AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix” ↗As long as we're discussing Dr. Sacks, I just read his short story (part of same-titled book) "An Anthropologist on Mars." The titles derive from Dr. Grandin Temple's perception of being high-functioning autist in academia/husbandry; she is best-known for re-designing slaughterhouse shutes, able to "see" as animals do.…
on “A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time” ↗