The Secret Of Consciousness

It is time that serious notice was taken of Paul Ableman.—Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange

This book is about you. How does your brain work and where do your thoughts and dreams come from? How can you harness their creative power? Ableman posits a crucial relationship between language and memory and thus between language and self-awareness. Most startlingly he maintains that the human 'person' is essentially the language component of a large-brained animal. Ableman …