osmazome

09Mar09

So now I have discovered Jonah Lehrer. Shame there’s a hum on this excellent talk he gave, based on his book Proust Was A Neauroscientist. What I especially like here is his acknowledgemnet – it shouldn’t have been necessary, but bizarrely it is – that many outside the field of psychology and neurology can have [...]

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the decisive moment

08Mar09

I’m just listening to the BBC “Book of the Week”, The Decisive Moment, by Jonah Lehrer. Coincidentally it covers some of the same ground as chapter one of Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis, which I’ve been chewing on the last few days. The BBC page says: The importance of the emotional brain. Since Plato, philosophers [...]

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