Volume 51, Number 1 · January 15, 2004
In the River of Consciousness
By Oliver Sacks
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Principles of Psychology
by William James
Dover, two volumes, $16.95 each (paper)
Creative Evolution
by Henri Bergson
Dover, 432 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory
by Donald Hebb
Erlbaum, 368 pp., $45.00
Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
by Gerald M. Edelman
Basic Books, 371 pp. (out of print)
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
by Gerald M. Edelman
Basic Books, 371 pp. (out of print)
The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge
by Jean-Pierre Changeux
Harvard University Press, 336 pp., $45.00 (to be published in April 2004)
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
by Francis Crick
Scribner, 336 pp., $15.00 (paper)
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
by Christof Koch, foreword by Francis Crick.
Roberts & Company Publishers, 448 pp., $45
A Natural History of Vision
by Nicholas J. Wade
MIT Press, 486 pp., $85.00; $37.00 (paper)
'Time,' says Jorge Luis Borges, 'is the substance I am made of. Time is a river that carries me away, but I am the river....' Our movements, our actions, are extended in time, as are our perceptions, our thoughts, the contents of consciousness. We live in time, we organize time, we are time creatures through and through. But is the time we live in, or live by, continuous—like Borges's river? Or is it more comparable to a chain or a train, a succession of discrete moments, like beads on a string?
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