Working in Movement

We experience the world through our senses. More precisely, the sensory information processed by our brain provides the experiences. But is this processing, our consciousness, a smooth, noninterruped flow of events like a river, or is it like a movie, a succession of discrete images or events strung together by the brain to simulate a smooth flow. Neurologist Oliver Sachs takes on the question in an as usual well-written and entertaining article, In the River of Consciousness in the New York Review of Books.

Focusing mostly on vision, Sachs describes lots of interesting neurological situations including some from his Awakenings days. Sachs cites research by the likes of Francis Crick and Cristof Koch, Gerald Edelman and others in an entertaining and informative read.