In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
Marchant asks what the present moment actually is, and finds physics, neuroscience and lived duration giving answers stranger and far less unified than intuition expects.
Marchant investigates what the present moment actually is, across physics, neuroscience and the felt experience of duration, and finds the scientific answer stranger and far less unified than intuition suggests. The now of physics, the now of the brain, and the now you appear to inhabit turn out to be three different objects. The follow-up to The Human Cosmos.
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Maria Popova
Jo Marchant takes up this elemental mystery in her excellent investigation In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment (public library), weaving together physics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and cultural anthropology to expose the warp and weft of our aliveness
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