Coming to Our Senses
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We think of perception as a passive, mechanical process, as if our eyes are cameras and our ears microphones. But as neurobiologist Susan R. Barry argues, perception is a...
Published By Basic Books
Format Audiobook
Category
- Nonfiction
- Psychology
- Science & Nature
- Life Sciences
- Biography & Memoir
- Cultural Icons & Historical Figures
Number Of Pages N/A
Publication Date 06/08/2021
ISBN 9781549135774
"Absolutely fascinating."—Temple Grandin
"What would happen if you had a new sense grafted on your body? Sue Barry is alert to the many fascinating details of how Liam and Zohra navigated their new sensory experiences, essentially giving the reader a lab course in experimental philosophy. This moving work of biography and scholarship explores the deep questions that arise when people choose to live in bodies that have been made new and strange.”—Michael Chorost, author of, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
"Coming to Our Senses is an engaging and illuminating book. Barry’s intimate account of people who gained the ability to see and hear as adults offers rich insights into how we shape, and our shaped by, our senses. Along the way Barry teaches us much about vision, hearing and the human capacity to and adapt."
—Dennis M. Levi, UC Berkeley