M. Michaels

Most Important Work on Cognitive Science This Century (until McGilchrist’s later work)

Revisado: 04-12-25

One of the many reasons I wish Oliver Sacks were still alive is so he could absorb this mind-detonating research and these paradigm-leaping insights into the workings of the right and left hemispheres and their impact on our epistemological perception of reality. Iain McGilchrist is my new favorite neuroscientist after Sacks and the most significant one of this century. This book and all his work will change the way you think—and the ways you think about thinking.

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Virtual Voice Fail

Revisado: 02-07-25

The entire time I was listening to this, I couldn’t understand why the narrator, engineer, or proofer didn’t notice that it sounded like he had a frog in his throat almost constantly. Listening to it while eating, I nearly lost my appetite because it was like he was gagging on his phlegm. Then as the credits rolled at the end, it says it was narrated by a virtual voice. Ahhhh, that explains why it sounded so unnatural. It distracted from otherwise valuable content, unfortunately. This information probably works better in text format, anyway, because it’s more like a cookbook and glossary.

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Could not be more relevant

Revisado: 02-13-24

Should be required reading for every human being along with Joost Meerloo, Gustave Le Bon, Bernays, Orwell, Huxley, and Hannah Arendt.

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Astonishingly Relevant

Revisado: 08-03-21

This brilliantly insightful treatise slices through all pretense and lays bare the mechanisms of power, propaganda, and mass control. Every human being would do well to read and reread this slim but potent volume regularly if we wish to recognize, resist, and topple tyranny in all its insidious forms—soft, creeping, and totalitarian.

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Should Be Required Reading for Every Human Being

Revisado: 02-02-19

I thought I knew a lot about sleep ... until I read this. Wow. This transcends individual health (although it certainly explores that in detail) and reveals the catastrophic societal impact of a clinically sleep-deprived population. From Chernobyl to the Exxon-Valdez spill, medical errors (many fatal) to diminished productivity, adolescent malaise to mental illness, ADHD misdiagnoses to the leading cause of car accidents, cancer to diabesity, sleep deprivation is at the root of all these crises, among others. May this eye-opening missive help everyone close their eyes for longer, deeper periods of sleep as we save our own and others’ lives. I am grateful to my enlightened doctor for recommending this gem.

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