Cortex end Mind by Joaquin Fuster is the best book in the
field I have read since Higher Cortical Functions by Alexander
Luria. It is a book of similar scope and ambition, but reflecting the
Zeitgeist of the beginning of the twenty-first century, rather than
that of the middle of the twentieth century. I cannot think of anything
of this importance and conceptual clarity written in between. It is
also a very European book, decidedly about the forest and not about the
trees, and infused with the sort of intellectual romanticism that our
prevailing empiricist mores tend to eschew with almost embarrassed
incomprehension. As a student of Luria and a fellow European, I can
relate to all of the above. The logic, the philosophy and the general
intellectual bent behind the book resonate so closely with my own, that
I felt that I could have written this book, but not nearly as well or
with this degree of professional erudition. As in his previous books,
Fuster's ability to inject a certain kind of elegance and verve in
the discussion of even the most arcane technical matters makes
Cortex and Mind not just an enlightening read but also an
enjoyable one.