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trickykitty) wrote2015-09-24 09:03 am
trickykitty) wrote2015-09-24 09:03 am
Odd Art
I'm currently listening to Proust was a Neuroscientist.
The concepts in it are fascinating, but going into chapter four I started feeling odd about the book, without being able to place it. This is funny in my view, because if there's one thing I have learned from neuroscience and cognitive psychology it's how our subconscious minds will perceive things prior to our rational, conscious mind being able to explain them. (reference the Wisconsin Card Sorting cognitive test)
To be fair, this is in stark contrast to when I first sat down to read Dianetics (prior to ever hearing any "news" about the book or Scientology as a whole, so I was completely untainted by bias when I read it), in which by the second chapter I was boiling over trying to figure out what the hell kind of dribble I was reading. I continued reading it to the end out of morbid fascination to see exactly how horrible it was going to get.
It would appear my underlying suspicions regarding Proust was a Neuroscientist have already been proven to have merit.
One thing I like about that review versus this review is that the first review is pointing out factual idiosyncrasies versus putting fourth a simple opinion. Granted, I think they both point to the odd feeling about the book I was getting.
I still think it's a good read, because it is forcing me to look outside of science alone in wanting to uncover the secrets of thought. I'll just be sure to read it with that little grain of salt in my head.
On a separate note, I can't stand the way the reader, Dan John Miller, is reading this audiobook. At least it's still a narrator rather than the computer reading it to me, but I do wonder if I wouldn't have been better off with a monotonous computer voice rather than this narrator. It's very grating to me.
The concepts in it are fascinating, but going into chapter four I started feeling odd about the book, without being able to place it. This is funny in my view, because if there's one thing I have learned from neuroscience and cognitive psychology it's how our subconscious minds will perceive things prior to our rational, conscious mind being able to explain them. (reference the Wisconsin Card Sorting cognitive test)
To be fair, this is in stark contrast to when I first sat down to read Dianetics (prior to ever hearing any "news" about the book or Scientology as a whole, so I was completely untainted by bias when I read it), in which by the second chapter I was boiling over trying to figure out what the hell kind of dribble I was reading. I continued reading it to the end out of morbid fascination to see exactly how horrible it was going to get.
It would appear my underlying suspicions regarding Proust was a Neuroscientist have already been proven to have merit.
One thing I like about that review versus this review is that the first review is pointing out factual idiosyncrasies versus putting fourth a simple opinion. Granted, I think they both point to the odd feeling about the book I was getting.
I still think it's a good read, because it is forcing me to look outside of science alone in wanting to uncover the secrets of thought. I'll just be sure to read it with that little grain of salt in my head.
On a separate note, I can't stand the way the reader, Dan John Miller, is reading this audiobook. At least it's still a narrator rather than the computer reading it to me, but I do wonder if I wouldn't have been better off with a monotonous computer voice rather than this narrator. It's very grating to me.