Oliver Sacks is a must-read, his books are a fascinating peek inside what
goes on inside our heads, written with a dry humour - and they gave me a
whole new view of what constitutes 'reality'. Thoroughly, highly
recommended, and will give you a new perspective on hat-stands and spouses
(just take a look at some of his book titles at Amazon).
But his name is Sacks (singular), not Sack - I am unconvinced about your
placement of that particular apostrophe Moose! Have I forgotten the rule I
was taught many years back about the possessive of a name ending with the
letter 's' (now why would I need to know that!), or should I be reading
Lynne Truss' book? ;-)
Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Moose
Sent: 16 July 2004 05:11
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] OT Memory, brain usage and recall(s), was Looking for a lost
tripod
This is my belief too. Cases in Oliver Sack's* books and other sources make
it pretty clear that our brain capacity is being used at essentially 100%.
When one sense is lost, that area of the brain rapidly, and we are talking a
few day here, starts functioning in support of the compensatory sense(s).
Most recent example I recall was an episode of Scientific American
Frontiers. A young woman was given training in reading Braile and her brain
function when reading it tested. She was then blindfolded throughly for a
week. At the end of the week, her ability to read Braile was way up, much
more sensitive use of touch. The test showed that the visual processing part
of the brain was very much involved in the use of touch, hweras it had not
been at first.
After a few days of "regained" sight, everything was back to normal.
Moose
*Are we all now to take public credit for correct plural usages? ;-)
W Shumaker wrote:
>Maybe it is simply "they" don't know what the rest of the brain is
>doing. How does one "determine" whether we are using our brains or not?
>OK, don't answer that. I believe we use 80-90% of our brain, we just
>don't necessarily do anything deemed useful with it, like arguing with
>ourselves.
>
>Also, imperfection is underrated. It is a very useful function.
>
Amen, brother!
One of my favorite poem/songs is from Leonard Cohen:
"Ring all the bells that still will ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in."
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