The Mind's Eye

In Mind 's Eye, Oliver Sack's story to be able to navigate the world and communicate with others. Despite the loss of what many of us the feeling and can not live without: the power of speech, the ability to recognize faces, a sense of three Dimensional spaces, the ability to read the sense of sight. For all of these challenges is to adapt to radically new ways of being in the world.
With Lilian, the concert pianist who became unable to read music, and eventually can not even To recognize objects in everyday life, and Sue. neurobiologist. Who have never seen in three dimensions until she saw the three-dimensional in her fifties.
Pat has a reinvents herself as a grandmother's love and she is a member of the community, despite the fact that She has cerebral palsy and unable to utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer after stroke destroyed his ability to read.
And Dr. Sacks himself who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the effects bizarre and disconcerting to see the loss on one side.
Sack consider some very strange paradoxes - those who can see the complete good. But can not recognize their own children and the blind is Hyper - visual or who guided him to consider more fundamental questions, "vision tongue": do we see? How do we think? How important is the picture - the vision, or for that matter? Why is that, although written only five thousand years old human nature seems universal, ability to read?
Mind 's Eye is a testament to the complexity of the vision and the brain and the power of creativity and adaptation. It also provides a new perspective in the power of language and communication as we try to think it was to see with the eyes of other people or other people's minds. More Biological Sciences