Eduardo Santiago
Second reading, still very much worth it. Although in many ways dated, the main gist is even more relevant today than in 2000: our lack of touch and connection is destroying us.
Most interesting to me in July 2025: rereading this so soon after The Master and His Emissary. Limbic vs neocortical, or left hemisphere vs right, there are appealing and useful aspects to each model -- but, like all models, they're incomplete and often wrong. I'm really intrigued by how both books converge on similar conclusions from such different approaches.
Most discouraging to me in July 2025: how much worse the world has become since the book's writing, in ways the authors feared. The system is powerfully stacked against us.
Probably not a book I'll be recommending or passing along: the world has changed too much in 25 years, culturally and in terms of neuroscience knowledge. Unfortunately I can't think of any single recent work that quite covers the same ground so elegantly. So, recommended with reservations?
Second reading, still very much worth it. Although in many ways dated, the main gist is even more relevant today than in 2000: our lack of touch and connection is destroying us.
Most interesting to me in July 2025: rereading this so soon after The Master and His Emissary. Limbic vs neocortical, or left hemisphere vs right, there are appealing and useful aspects to each model -- but, like all models, they're incomplete and often wrong. I'm really intrigued by how both books converge on similar conclusions from such different approaches.
Most discouraging to me in July 2025: how much worse the world has become since the book's writing, in ways the authors feared. The system is powerfully stacked against us.
Probably not a book I'll be recommending or passing along: the world has changed too much in 25 years, culturally and in terms of neuroscience knowledge. Unfortunately I can't think of any single recent work that quite covers the same ground so elegantly. So, recommended with reservations?