----------------- OK, now that I've sat on this read for a month I have to give credit where it is due. This book frackedMake sure you read Blindsight.
----------------- OK, now that I've sat on this read for a month I have to give credit where it is due. This book fracked me up.
The focus on bi-cameral humans and then especially the notes at the end on how the brain has two distinct personalities in the two hemispheres has really changed my entire worldview. Humans make so much more sense to me now.
I'm not expecting that others will react the same way as I did. But I DID react this way and my life is better for it.
So, thank you again, Peter Watts, for yet another great reading experience....more
I loved this book. It changed me in some way I don't quite understand yet. A great work of art.I loved this book. It changed me in some way I don't quite understand yet. A great work of art....more
Hmmmm.....just some of the good things I can think of about this book:
1. I learned how close we are psychologically, emotionally, verbally, and mentalHmmmm.....just some of the good things I can think of about this book:
1. I learned how close we are psychologically, emotionally, verbally, and mentally to chimps 2. I learned to view animals in a much more connected way. I mean that I feel closer to all animals. 3. I saw again how susceptible humans are to holocaust/slavery type thinking. 4. This booked messed with my head. I will never be the same. I will forever after think of chimps as thinking/feeling/talking hominids. And I will be more sensitive to the feelings and well-being of all other animals. 5. I learned how speaking with the mouth/tongue evolved. 6. I learned how linked movement is with the ability to speak. 7. I learned about my own speech impediments.
I am really glad for Goodreads. Goodreads suggested this book and I had never noticed it before. And I really missed out up till now....more
Gould's best. About the Cambrian explosion. Natural selection served up all kinds of possible life forms whose fossils have been found in the Burgess Gould's best. About the Cambrian explosion. Natural selection served up all kinds of possible life forms whose fossils have been found in the Burgess Shale. However, most of these possibilities were unsuccessful. The big winner was a tiny little creature with a, wait for it, spinal chord. So cool!! Looking at the plethora of ancient creatures makes you think you're looking at an alien planet. But it all happened here folks....more
In the running for my favorite, favorite books. I still can't get over that Ann Rule was friends with Ted Bundy while she was writing the book about hIn the running for my favorite, favorite books. I still can't get over that Ann Rule was friends with Ted Bundy while she was writing the book about him, not knowing it was about him, etc. This book messed me up for weeks. If you think that people are basically good, you need to read this book. Time to wake up....more
I prescribe this to clients as a book about leadership. Because Mao is the perfect anti-leader. It is instructive to watch him go from seemingly minorI prescribe this to clients as a book about leadership. Because Mao is the perfect anti-leader. It is instructive to watch him go from seemingly minor manipulations to absolute pure evil anti-leader behaviors. It makes you think about when you see minor manipulations in the workplace. What can acceptance of those small things lead to? Do you behave with minor lies and manipulations? Why? What do you really want? Great section on the Korean war....more
Skip the opening chapter on dream research and enjoy one of the most important and amazing books ever. This book messed me up. After I read it I realiSkip the opening chapter on dream research and enjoy one of the most important and amazing books ever. This book messed me up. After I read it I realized how much being awake was like dreaming, and that in a sense I was walking around in a dream constructed by my unconscious....more
At first I thought I didn't like this book. Then I couldn't stop thinking about it. Then I watched the movie and then I REALLY couldn't stop thinking about it. I am still creeped out whenever I think about it. There is one scene in the movie that is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. A great book....more
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