déjà vu all over again

Over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, David Glenn delves into research on a subject that, of late, has become accessible to neuroscientists.

During the past two decades, however, a few hardy souls have reopened the scientific study of déjà vu. They hope to nail down a persuasive explanation of the phenomenon, as well as shed light on some fundamental elements of memory and cognition. In the new book The Déjà Vu Experience: Essays in Cognitive Psychology (Psychology Press), Alan S. Brown, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University, surveys the fledgling subfield. "What we can try to do is zero in on it from a variety of different angles," he says. "It won't be something like, 'Boom! The explanation is there.' But we can get gradual clarity through some hard work."

In other news, I've started reading Don Quixote. Much like the protagonist, I can't stop reading.

In short, our hidalgo was soon so absorbed in these books that his nights were spent reading from dusk till dawn, and his days from dawn till dusk, until the lack of sleep and the excess of reading withered his brain, and he went mad.

Also, I'm re-reading God, Freedom and Evil, and diving into The Evidential Argument From Evil, and hope to correct and clarify my previous posting on the subject.