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Oliver Sacks: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Paperback, 2021, Vintage) 4 stars

In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” …

Taking our brain for granted

3 stars

The case studies of patients who had strange neurological conditions was fascinating -- people who couldn't sense their bodies, people who couldn't form new memories, a pair of twins who could perceive numbers of things without counting them and several others. The author's philosophizing was less interesting.