In Search of the Now
This immediate moment, what we are experiencing right now... envelops us like the air or gravity. Yet, when we try to grasp its essence, it vanishes like a dream. Worse still: according to the most reliable models in physics, the "Now" does not even exist.
If that is the case, what are we actually experiencing? How do we shape time, sensation, the "self" and the meaning of life from a blank canvas where the present has no place?
In this revealing book, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant answers these questions with her characteristic clarity and brilliance. Through a journey into the latest advances in physics, neuroscience, cosmology and psychiatry, Marchant explores the fundamental nature of time and our individual experience of it.
A unique perspective on reality:
- From the Outside In: The cosmic view of physics and what it tells us about the (non)existence of the present.
- From the Inside Out: How our brain constructs the perception of time and creates meaning.
- Science and Philosophy: An exploration that is simultaneously a philosophical meditation and a rigorous scientific investigation.
ISBN: 9789895778171
Chancela: Culture
Edição: julho de 2026
Tradução: Miguel Marques
Dimensões: 15 mm x 23 mm x 24 mm
Encadernação: Paperback
Páginas: 352
Classificação Temática: Autoajuda e desenvolvimento pessoal
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