another good book worth recommending, again on a friend's chance offering: rebuilt: how becoming part computer made me more human.

the guy, who has always been hard of hearing, goes completely deaf midway through his life, and gets a cochlear implant. the book tells the story of learning how to use it, along the way answering questions like what ( Read more... )

i've been reading this book - it is several stories by a therapist about patients fighting difficult problems that each have something to do with death anxiety. hearing what therapists have to say about life leaves me with this intense feeling of mental vitality, and also a bit of an urge to flee pittsburgh and pursue such a career myself.

somewhat ( Read more... )

at the recommendation of invinciblehymn , and it is surprising me with insights at every turn.

We are mistaken to believe that our consciousness is awakened at the moment of our first birth - perhaps because we do not know how to imagine any other living state. It may seem to us that we have always seen and felt and, armed with this belief, we identify our entry ( Read more... )