The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
Sciences et médecine (biographies), Psychologie, Sciences et technologies
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks s wife died of cancer it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul The result of that journey… is a gorgeous evocative meditation on fate death consciousness and what it means to be human The Darker the Night The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist s understanding of the mind its logic its nuance how we think about what makes a person with a poet s approach to humanity that crucial and ever-elusive why It s a story that unfolds through the centuries along the path of humankind s constant quest to discover what makes us human and the answers that consistently slip out of our grasp It s modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales history and myth combined fiction and the stranger truth But most importantly it s Broks story grounded in his own most fascinating cases as a clinician patients with brain injuries that revealed something fundamental about the link between the raw stuff of our bodies and brains and the ineffable selves we take for who we are Tracing a loose arc of loss acceptance and renewal he unfolds striking imaginative stories of everything from Schopenhauer to the Greek philosophers to jazz guitarist Pat Martino in order to sketch a multifaceted view of humanness that is as heartbreaking at it is affirming