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Susannah Cahalan (born January 30, 1985) is an American writer and author, known for writing the memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, about her hospitalization with a rare autoimmune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
He was also president of the National Association of Science Writers from 1972-1973. [2] His book, Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works , was published in 1996. [ 3 ]
Brian Lumley (2 December 1937 – 2 January 2024) was an English author of horror fiction.He came to prominence in the 1970s writing in the Cthulhu Mythos created by American writer H. P. Lovecraft but featuring the new character Titus Crow, and went on to greater fame in the 1980s with the best-selling Necroscope series, initially centered on character Harry Keogh, who can communicate with ...
Adam Levin (b. 1976/77 [1]) is an American fiction author. His short fiction has been published in places like Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and Tin House. Currently, he resides in Chicago, where he teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the School of the Art Institute. His first novel, The Instructions, was published in 2010 by ...
In science fiction, wireheading is a term associated with fictional or futuristic applications [1] of brain stimulation reward, the act of directly triggering the brain's reward center by electrical stimulation of an inserted wire, for the purpose of 'short-circuiting' the brain's normal reward process and artificially inducing pleasure.
James H. Austin is an American neurologist and author. He is the author of the book Zen and the Brain.It establishes links between the neurophysiology of the human brain and the practice of meditation, and won the Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize for 1998. [1]
Manna is meant to be a thought-provoking read or conceptual prototype rather than an entertaining novel. [citation needed] The novel shows two possible outcomes of the 'robotic revolution' in the near future: one outcome is a dystopia based around US capitalism and the other is a utopia based upon a communal and technological society in Australia.
Mind uploading—transferring an individual's personality to a computer—appears in several works of fiction. [1] It is distinct from the concept of transferring a consciousness from one human body to another.