by Jay Nelson (Author), Lindy Nelson (Author), Kevin Cuellar (Illustrator)
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.
Number of Pages: 446
Dimensions: 0.99 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: October 15, 2022
