The Accidental Mind

Marshal Zeringue is a book enthusiast who runs the websites "Campaign for the American Reader" and the "The Page 99 Test."  The idea behind the latter comes from a quote from Ford Madox Ford: ""Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you."  Marshal has asked various authors to extract a quotation from page 99 of their book and then comment upon whether it truly revealed "the quality of the whole."  So, when I was contacted by Marshal, i quickly filpped to page 99 of The Accidental Mind and was relieved to find that it did not entirely suck.  Page 99 turned out to be a segment about how emotion and perception are blended in the brain as revealed by an interesting neurological condition:  in Capgras syndrome, people come to believe that their parents (or other close relatives, or even their pets) have been replaced by convincing replicas.  You can read all about it here.