The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

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Oliver Sacks was a 20th-century British neurologist and writer. Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia →

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