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Beautifully written article. I'm reading Julian Jayne's "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" at the moment and was glad I had s
by rgrieselhuber 10y ago
Beautifully written article.
I'm reading Julian Jayne's "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" at the moment and was glad I had started to read it before reading this article as there were some fascinating jumping off points in both directions.
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- benbreen 10y agoI didn't realize it when I posted, but I looked back at Mukherjee's book The Gene: an Intimate History and realized that this article is an excerpt from two parts of that book. Awhile ago I gave up on it a quarter of the way through, bogged down in an interminable section on fruit fly genetics, but have picked it up again now and am enjoying it. If you haven't read it yet, I recommend the book more for his personal narrative (the one that the article hones in on) than for the rehashing of Mendel or the Watson/Crick/Rosalind Franklin story, and in some ways it feels like a bit of a Frankenstein's monster a result of stitching together so many different stories. But he really is a beautiful writer. I'm starting to think of him as the successor to Oliver Sacks (RIP).