I never realized until today that The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a fable/metaphor about the loss of indexicality in brain science (explicitly so, although Sacks doesn’t use that word)
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> “Indexical” is a word almost perfectly calculated to sap the morale of the reader and annihilate interest. I have seriously considered replacing it with the word “pointing,” YES REPLACE
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