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The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception
The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception

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Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life
Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

“The meaning of life… clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love.”

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The Art of Allowing Change: Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks about the Blessed Overwhelm of Transformation
The Art of Allowing Change: Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks about the Blessed Overwhelm of Transformation

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The Human Scale: Oliver Sacks on How to Save Humanity from Itself
The Human Scale: Oliver Sacks on How to Save Humanity from Itself

“…or there will be genocide, atomic bombs, and we’ll all perish and take the planet with us.”

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The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature

“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.”

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Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See
Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See

“The day steeps everything in golden liquid… A sidewalk cafe in the evening, with a wonderful amber light flooding through the doors and windows: huge, mad stars in an indigo sky. For this, you have to be great, crazy, or wildly in love.”

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The Secret Life of Chocolate: Oliver Sacks on the Cultural and Natural History of Cacao
The Secret Life of Chocolate: Oliver Sacks on the Cultural and Natural History of Cacao

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Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions
Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions

“We need detachment… as much as we need engagement in our lives… transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear.”

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Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years Before ChatGPT
Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years Before ChatGPT

“We read excitedly of the latest chemical, computational, or quantum theory of mind, and then ask, ‘Is that all there is to it?'”

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Oliver Sacks on Libraries
Oliver Sacks on Libraries

In praise of intellectual freedom, community, and the ecstasy of serendipitous discovery.

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