Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio — The Body Was Never Separate from the Mind
A review of Antonio Damasio’s Descartes’ Error — the neuroscience book that dismantled 350 years of mind-body dualism and proved emotion is the engine of reason.
God and Golem, Inc. by Norbert Wiener — When the Father of Cybernetics Warned Us About Playing God
Norbert Wiener’s 1964 God and Golem, Inc. warned us about machines that learn, reproduce, and create. Sixty years later, the warning reads like a prophecy we ignored.
Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion by Gerald N. Callahan — You Are Not One Thing. You Are a Negotiation.
Gerald Callahan’s essays on immunology and identity ask a question philosophy never quite answered: What makes you *you*? A review of a quietly radical book.
Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook — The Thriller That Hid a Corporate Autopsy Inside a Mob Story
A review of Robin Cook’s Chromosome 6 — where a mobster’s missing liver unravels a biotech conspiracy that’s less science fiction than corporate diagnosis.
Fuzzy Thinking by Bart Kosko — The Man Who Went After Aristotle and Had a Point
A review of Bart Kosko’s Fuzzy Thinking — the 1993 book that challenged 2,500 years of Aristotelian binary logic with the fuzzy principle that everything is a matter of degree.
Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution by Carole Jahme — The Mirror We Keep Turning Away From
A review of Carole Jahme’s Beauty and the Beasts — how female primatologists and their ape subjects forced science to confront violence, sex, and what we really are.
