     Other Blogs by me   Notes from Alvina Krause between
1957-1961 are posted at  Fiction about Indians at Essays about
Indians at  Wednesday, November 14, 2012   "The Ravenous Brain:
How the New Science of Consciousness Explains our Insatiable
Search for Meaning" by Daniel Bor  (2012, Basic Books) is the
first book we discovered no library wanted to loan through
Interlibrary Loan!  I figured this meant it was full of pretty
valuable stuff, so I just bought it, used of course.  Now I
don't want to loan it!  This is one of a barrage of books
developing out of the neurostudy of brains made possible by
information accumulated through the use of new instruments and
theories. One small factoid would stick to another, then some
indications fit into that and a theory would form, which was
tested by other instruments, in a process that Bor calls
"chunking" but I like to call "clustering," the pattern for how
atoms form elements and how elements form molecules which in
turn form creatures.  The form of the book is in