The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

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The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

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Seperti kisah gajah dan 7 orang buta, masing-masing orang buta menerjemahkan gajah secara berbeda, sesuai kapasitas pemahaman masing-masing, dan tidak ada satu pun yang bisa menangkap realitasnya secara utuh. As well as chronicling the experiences of people like Valeria and James, who have experienced the world in unusual ways since birth, Leschziner explores cases of sensory alteration that have affected people following illness or injury. Each case reads like a short detective story, with puzzling symptoms pieced together from Leschziner’s perspective as their neurologist, supported by quotes from the individuals themselves. But what happens if that wiring goes awry? What happens if connections falter, or new and unexpected connections are made? Tiny shifts in the microbiology of our nervous systems can cause the world around us to shift and mutate, to become alien and unfamiliar.

Imagine a book revolving around a line of poetry by Sir Walter Scott. That's what we have here, despite neither Scott, or the poem, being mentioned. Here's the line: All was delusion, nought was truth. The line comes from "The Lay of the Last Minstrel." Kalau seandainya anda terpaksa harus merelakan salah satu indera, mana yang akan anda pilih? Indera penciuman? Mungkin menurut kita, kehilangan indera penciuman tidak banyak mempengaruhi hidup, tidak seperti kehilangan penglihatan atau pendengaran. Randomness (like accidents, injuries), genetic mutations, auto-immune diseases, seizures, blindness, strokes, loss of taste, smell, illnesses, trauma-there is no end to causes that can disrupt our senses. How is the attention that we give to them an important factor? This is a provocative read, I was pondering the senses in a different light and learning much more about the brain and the circuitry of our nervous system than I imagined. What a mystery the human body is, despite all our scientific advances. I was engrossed by the patients, the journey each was on and all that they shared with the reader. Many people are unique and present a challenge to doctors. It is through studying these deviations from the ‘norm’ that understanding expands, hope is born that help is on the horizon for so many of us. An intelligently written book. A truly astonishing book – from the story of the man who tasted words to that of Paul who could pull out his own teeth and break his legs yet feel no pain. These are beautifully and engagingly written stories of how our senses tell us about the reality of the world – or, sometimes, don’t.’The Observer - Guy Leschziner: ‘Reality is entirely a construct of our nervous system’ by Andrew Anthony Imagine tasting a full English breakfast whenever you heard the words “Tottenham Court Road”. Or the flavour of pineapple chunks at the tinkling of a piano. For James, who is a synaesthete and one of the extraordinary people described in Guy Leschziner’s new book, words, music and life itself are saturated with striking taste sensations. Leschziner, a professor of neurology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, has brought together a collection of exceptionally unusual and interesting stories in his second book, dedicated to the wonder of our senses. Ia berkesimpulan bahwa sebenarnya yang dinamakan 'realitas', tidaklah persis sama bagi setiap orang, bahkan kadang sangat berbeda.

I guess no review of this book would be complete without referring to Synaesthesia. This is the state where the man in the title can taste words. However there are other forms of synaesthesia. The colours that some people find in music of music would be one and the chapter was again very interesting. I did not read every single word, scanning over some parts that were more detailed medically, but I did find myself zeroing in often on an unusual sensory aspect I've experienced or seen in others. Each case of sensory alteration reads like a detective story, with puzzling symptoms pieced together”The Man Who Tasted Words is an absolutely fascinating exploration of our senses. Neurologist Guy Leschziner expertly weaves his own experiences and observations with his patient's stories and uses clear easy-to-understand language, to explain complex medical conditions. In The Man Who Tasted Words, consultant neurologist Guy Leschziner takes us on a journey through the senses, exploring how each one shapes our experience of the world. And investigating what happens when they deviate from the norm. Along the way we meet a number of extraordinary individuals and step through the looking glass and into their worlds. Worlds where hot and cold are reversed, where a person with no sight sees fantastical visions, or where words have a taste and sounds create sensations. In terms of cases and among others, we meet Paul who has no feeling of physical pain at all. The challenges of living life without necessary danger signals through pain are very big. Rahel is unable to walk/stand as she has no perception of her movements. Dawn has a "benign" tumour. Despite it being benign it is affecting her vision and this is during the pandemic which simply adds to the problems of treating patients. There are a number of other patients and cases mentioned. While I found them all interesting these ones seemed to stand out for me. The challenges of attempting to help people with some of these sort of conditions are substantial. All too often there is little that can be done. In vivid stories of patient maladies that affect our very human sensations of sight, sound, smell, touch and pain, Leschziner has deeply explored the sensory experiences that bombard every moment of our lives but of which we are barely aware. What a terrific melding of brain science with thoughtful ideas on our window to the outside world.’

Mark hears his personal noises (chewing, breathing, and other) at way too high a volume, while the sounds of the external world are muffled. A TV personality has lost his ability to hear bird songs above a certain pitch, then starts hearing loud sounds everywhere, and a musical playlist that holds no appeal. Leschziner has an engaging writing style and keeps the intel delivery at an accessible pop-science level, for the most part. On occasion, a bit too much technical jargon does find a way in, but just skip past when it does. There are occasional moments of humor, one actual LOL, for me, anyway. But this is not a significant feature of his writing. Similarly, the book could be an exegesis about a line from the Beatles' song "Strawberry Fields Forever": Nothing is real. Synesthesia does put in an appearance. For James, sounds have taste and texture. Valerie sees color associated with sound. Sometimes colors do seem too loud, even to those of us with the usual sense experiences. Is this a case of synesthesia in language? ‘My favourite Tube station was Tottenham Court Road, because there’s so many lovely words in there. “Tottenham” produced the taste and texture of a sausage; “Court” was like an egg – a fried egg but not a runny fried egg: a lovely crispy fried egg. And “Road” was toast. So there you’ve got a pre-made breakfast. But further along the Central Line was one of the worst ones, that used to taste like an aerosol can – you know, the aftertaste you get from hairspray. That was Bond Street.’It is the associations our sensate experiences have with our past, with our emotions with our thought processes, that give them value far beyond the immediate physical information they provide, whether one is a Proustian character recalling a large chunk of his past prompted by dipping a madeleine in a cup of tea, or one is a less literary sort, recalling a moment from early parenthood, prompted by the particular scents in the baby products section of a store. not only is there an overlap between olfaction and emotion, but also olfaction and emotional memory. Those regions of the brain involved in olfaction and emotional processing also have a strong role in memory.

Throughout the book, Leschziner makes it clear that every person’s reality is as valid as the next. There are, however, moments where he seemingly assumes that the reader experiences all five senses – and in the “normal” way. At other points, there is unnecessary repetition, which detracts from the message he is trying to get across. Each chapter of this book leads the reader through a new sense and explores, through engaging storytelling, how the brain understands (or misunderstands) the world around us. Honestly, this book was amazing and I had a hard time putting it down. I highly recommend it, just make sure to clear your schedule as you won't want to stop reading!

Ternyata, dua buku dari ahli syaraf yang saya baca pada saat yang sama ini, meskipun bahasannya berbeda, tetapi menemukan pelajaran yang sama. Bagaimana dengan gangguan indera penciuman? Bagi Joanne, yang penciumannya terganggu setelah sebuah episode sakit pilek, setelah sembuh dari pileknya ternyata semua bebauan yang biasanya harum (bunga), dan enak menggiurkan (makanan) menjadi menyengat dan memualkan, membuatnya tidak bisa lagi menjalankan kegiatan sehari-hari. Dan tahukah anda, tanpa indera penciuman, tidak ada makanan yang 'enak', karena rasa makanan tidak hanya tergantung pada lidah saja, melainkan ditentukan oleh reseptor-reseptor di lidah, dinding mulut dan hidung bagian dalam. Judul buku ini sendiri, The Man Who Tasted Words diambil dari cerita tentang synaesthesia, ketika terjadi 'korslet' di area otak yang menerjemahkan sensasi A dengan sensasi B. Hasilnya, bagi James, seorang synaesthete, suatu kata atau nama bisa memunculkan rasa tertentu.

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The author convinced me that we are duffers stumbling from one illusion to the next. However, while I was reading this, particularly the visual 'blind spot' that we all suffer from, I wondered if our brains have an inbuilt 'blind spot' that propels us to idiocy or mass delusion.



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