Consciousness in a Nutshell - Jay Nelson

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Résumé :
Fresh, exciting, and persuasive. - BookLife Mind-bending....and highly recommended! - The Wishing Shelf Awards Consciousness in a Nutshell is an award-winning work of creative nonfiction that takes the reader on a psychological trip through the concepts of consciousness, perception, and thought. A neuroscientist trapped in a room without doors or windows writes a letter to a stranger explaining everything he knows about consciousness-in exchange for one little favor. Written in the style of creative nonfiction, this semi-autobiographical tale follows two young neuropsychopharmacologists on the verge of publishing a major breakthrough, when one of them (only identified by the name Ava) winds up missing, and the other finds himself trapped in a room without doors or windows. Faced with impending doom, James decides to write a letter to a total stranger explaining everything he and his partner discovered so his entire life won't have been for nothing. In a sentence, it's a multi-disciplinary answer to the question, What is consciousness? told through the vehicle of a story. In a couple sentences, it's everything worth knowing about the subject, rendered into a psychological thriller. A multimodal conversation that spans the fields of psychology, cosmology, philosophy, coding, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. In a few hundred pages, it's Consciousness in a Nutshell: A Psychonautical Odyssey, an undefinable, genre-bending literary tour-de-force featuring 500 unique, citable sources....

Biographie:
JAY NELSON is an award-winning author, actor, and screenwriter obsessed with three questions: (i) What is consciousness? (ii) Is there an edge of experience? And (iii) How best to explain ecological awareness? After originally getting his start in acting, Jay soon found a love for psychology and explaining the human mind. But after a near-death-experience realigned all of his perceptions in 2013, he started moonlighting in neuroscience, philosophy, and evolutionary biology. He has been called a philosopher, a shaman, and a man of science. But, by his own description, he's a moderately well-read person who wants to test the limits of human perception. He currently resides in Colorado with his wife and son. You can find him online at www.jaynelson.com....

Sommaire:
Consciousness in a Nutshell is an award-winning work of creative nonfiction that takes the reader on a psychological trip through the concepts of consciousness, perception, and thought. Fresh, exciting, and persuasive. - BookLife Mind-bending....and highly recommended! - The Wishing Shelf Book Awards A neuroscientist trapped in a room without doors or windows writes a letter to a stranger explaining everything he knows about consciousness-in exchange for one little favor. Written in the style of creative nonfiction, this semi-autobiographical tale follows two young neuropsychopharmacologists on the verge of publishing a major breakthrough, when one of them (only identified by the name Ava) winds up missing, and the other finds himself trapped in a room without doors or windows. Faced with impending doom, James decides to write a letter to a total stranger explaining everything he and his partner discovered so his entire life won't have been for nothing. In a sentence, it's a multi-disciplinary answer to the question, What is consciousness? told through the vehicle of a story. In a couple sentences, it's everything worth knowing about the subject, rendered into a psychological thriller. A multimodal conversation that spans the fields of psychology, cosmology, philosophy, coding, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. In a few hundred pages, it's Consciousness in a Nutshell: A Psychonautical Odyssey, an undefinable, genre-bending literary tour-de-force featuring 500 unique, citable sources....