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Title

The man who tasted shapes : a bizarre medical mystery offers revolutionary insights into emotions, reasoning & consciousness / Richard E. Cytowic.

Author

Cytowic, Richard E.

Publication

New York : G. P. Putnam's, c1993.

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Description

xii, 249 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Cytowic examines the world of synesthetes and the nature of memory, the roots of creativity, the feasibility of artificial intelligence, and the importance of subjectivity in medical research.

Subject

• Synesthesia
• Emotions and cognition

Note

• "A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-244) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. A Medical Mystery Tale. Ch. 1. February 10, 1980: Not Enough Points on the Chicken. Ch. 2. The World Turned Inside Out. Ch. 3. 1957 -- Down in the Basement: The Making of a Neurologist. Ch. 4. How the Brain Works: The Standard View. Ch. 5. Winters 1977 and 1978: "There Is Nothing Wrong With Your Eyes." Ch. 6. Direct Experience, Technology, and Inner Knowledge. Ch. 7. March 25, 1980: Blinding Red Jaggers. Ch. 8. Down in the Basement: The History of Synesthesia. Ch. 9. April 10, 1980: "Taste This!" Ch. 10. Diagnosing Synesthesia. Ch. 11. April 25, 1980: Where Is the Link? Ch. 12. Painting the Ceiling. Ch. 13. Summer 1980: Bringing Things to a Close. Ch. 14. September 1983: "Bizarre Medical Oddity Affects Millions!" Ch. 15. Form Constants and Explaining Ineffable Experiences. Ch. 16. Altered States of Consciousness. Ch. 17. May 21, 1981: Taking Drugs. Ch. 18. June 29, 1981: Bride of Frankenstein, Revisited. Ch. 19. How the Brain Works: The New View. Ch. 20. The Implications of Synesthesia. Ch. 21. October 5, 1982: The Reverend and Martinis -- pt. 2. Essays on the Primacy of Emotion. Ch. 1. The Anthropic Principle. Ch. 2. Free Lunch and Imagination. Ch. 3. Consciousness Is a Type of Emotion. Ch. 4. The Limits of Artificial Intelligence. Ch. 5. Different Kinds of Knowledge. Ch. 6. The Experience of Metaphor. Ch. 7. Emotion Has a Logic of Its Own. Ch. 8. Other People's Experience. Ch. 9. The Depth at Which We Really Live. Ch. 10. Reason Is the Endless Paperwork of the Mind. Ch. 11. Science and Spirituality.

ISBN

0874777380

LCCN

^^^92034698^

OCLC

26761604

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library