Meaning, Myth and Human Consciousness “My old Pueblo friend … thought that the raison d’être of his pueblo had been to help their father, the sun, to cross the sky each day. I had envied him for the fullness of meaning in that belief, and had been looking about without hope for a myth of …
Peering into a Black Box
IT’S OFTEN DELIGHTFUL, AND SOMETIMES JARRING, when the flow of the book you’ve been reading suddenly takes an unexpected turn, right at the end. Talented novelists know how to do that well, but it’s not what I expect to find in a book about the brain by a neuroscientist. The first six chapters of David …
