P, a man who teaches music at a school and is unable to see or recognize faces. It is difficult for him to see a whole person or picture, instead he focuses on specific elements at a time that allow him to know (for the most part) what he is seeing. Sacks recognizes that Dr. P sees by his ears, he is able to recognize where a person is standing and who is talking to him by the individual’s voice. Dr. P is unable to recognize emotions anon faces, and is only able to tell people apart by noticeable factors such as mustaches or prominent features. Sacks seemed to think Dr. P was lost in a world of lifeless abstractions, but he was still able to maintain and express his intelligence. Chapter 4, is brief, yet is illustrates the experience of a man who fell out of bed because he believed his leg was a corpse’s leg. He awoke and was terrified to find a cadaver leg in bed with him, and when he pushed it off his bed he too fell off, because the offensive leg was actually his. This man was experiencing a complete loss of awareness of his hemiplegic
P, a man who teaches music at a school and is unable to see or recognize faces. It is difficult for him to see a whole person or picture, instead he focuses on specific elements at a time that allow him to know (for the most part) what he is seeing. Sacks recognizes that Dr. P sees by his ears, he is able to recognize where a person is standing and who is talking to him by the individual’s voice. Dr. P is unable to recognize emotions anon faces, and is only able to tell people apart by noticeable factors such as mustaches or prominent features. Sacks seemed to think Dr. P was lost in a world of lifeless abstractions, but he was still able to maintain and express his intelligence. Chapter 4, is brief, yet is illustrates the experience of a man who fell out of bed because he believed his leg was a corpse’s leg. He awoke and was terrified to find a cadaver leg in bed with him, and when he pushed it off his bed he too fell off, because the offensive leg was actually his. This man was experiencing a complete loss of awareness of his hemiplegic