Reviews for Gallbladder Cancer: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

The average rating for Gallbladder Cancer: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-16 00:00:00 Douglas Curtis Ornstein, a psychologist, sets out on this mundane task of studying how the human mind works and soon discovers that a human being does not have a mind as in singular, but a collection of minds, hence his groundbreaking and upending concept of Multimind. In a nutshell, in my layman's interpretation, our mind is analogous to a library with different bookshelves, with different compartments, with all sorts of books containing all sorts of instructions. Now, the name of the game is finding the right book at the right time without turning the library upside down which is easy said than done since we are not entirely in control of the librarian who in this case is the brain. The funny thing is the librarian has the prerogative of disposing off certain books not just without our permission, but our knowledge as well. So, you might end up looking for a book that is no longer in the library. I enjoyed this book very much considering I had thought I was punching above my weight and the author was going to make mincemeat of me, but instead his brilliance, which is quite evident across the pages, guided me like a lighthouse guiding a lost ship in the sea of darkness, and slowly drove his point home. Ornstein distils his ideas so easily that one doesn't necessarily need to have a scientific bearing to grasp what he saying.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-09-08 00:00:00 Nathan Luce Foreshadows Minsky's "Society of Mind" although with a more human dimension as opposed to AI. An excellent reminder that we are beyond even our own understanding and that our brains do not evolve as quickly as we'd like, severely limiting what we are actually capable of. Humbling, actually. Nice to hear Freud's model of the mind acknowledged as a step forward but then dismissed as too simplistic, given more recent research (Gardner et al) and also nice to read that dualism (mind/body) is not the only way. Now on to selfless wisdom from the Sufis...