ABOUT

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 few sentences, it's everything worth knowing about the subject, rendered in easy-to-read prose. A multimodal conversation or dialogue 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 over 500 unique, citable sources.