****"Vivid. . . . Livewired reads wonderfully, like what a book would
be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on
Carl Sagan's front lawn." **--The Wall Street Journal
What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why is the
enemy of memory not time but other memories? How can a blind person
learn to see with her tongue, or a deaf person learn to hear with his
skin? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts, just as we do
our fingers and toes? Why do we dream at night, and what does that have
to do with the rotation of the earth? The answers to these questions are
right behind our eyes. The greatest technology we have ever discovered
on our planet is the three-pound organ carried in the vault of the
skull. The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but
in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric,
living fabric. In Livewired, you will surf the leading edge of
neuroscience atop the anecdotes and metaphors that have made David
Eagleman one of the best scientific translators of our generation.
Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also
presents new discoveries from Eagleman's own laboratory, from
synesthesia to dreaming to wearable neurotech devices that revolutionize
how we think about the senses.
