In Search of Memory, the book caught all my attention while I walked around the library days ago. Then I borrowed it and took it back.
The author, Eric R. Kandel, is the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In his words, the book serves more than an autobiography, and most importantly, it is a popular literature on science. Begining with some simple but basic knowledge on cells, the book leads readers to a world that full of wonders and creatures.
I have embraced this big project yesterday: to learn through what kinds of system and in what way our brain deal with the messages outside and how it produces memories. But only through one hour of reading, I find it’s hard for me to lay down the book and focus on other business. It’s too wonderful! It touches on Freud, Grundest, Gasser, Cajal and other prominent scientists. Also Eric uses plant and easy-understand language to describe their theories: the hypothesis of ion theory, the neurons theory and so on. Wow, while reading attentively the book, I recollected all the fragments I learned from the biology textbooks in high school. After obtaining more detail theories from the book, all the fragments can unite and picture clearly the framework of the knowledge I learned! And this finding made me so excited that I should feel it hard to put aside the book and sleep.
Then, that is what we call “the passion of learning”? Wakaka
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