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Sex, Death, and Science - Exploring Taboo Topics in Modern Society | Thought-Provoking Book for Psychology & Sociology Enthusiasts
Sex, Death, and Science - Exploring Taboo Topics in Modern Society | Thought-Provoking Book for Psychology & Sociology Enthusiasts

Sex, Death, and Science - Exploring Taboo Topics in Modern Society | Thought-Provoking Book for Psychology & Sociology Enthusiasts" 或 "Sex, Death, and Science: A Deep Dive into Controversial Subjects | Perfect for Book Clubs, Psychology Students & Critical Thinkers" (根据内容调整使用场景,假设这是一本探讨禁忌话题的书籍)

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A day in the inner and outer lives of a college professor, blogger, divorced father, thinker, and yearner.What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller The End of Science, answers that question in his genre-bending new book Pay Attention, a stream-of-consciousness account of a day in in the life of his alter ego, Eamon Toole--a blogger, college professor, and divorced father.This work of fact-based fiction, or "faction," follows Toole as he wakes up in his rented apartment in upstate New York, meditates with the mantra "Duh," commutes via train and subway to an engineering school in New Jersey, teaches a William James essay on consciousness to freshmen, squabbles about Thomas Kuhn with colleagues over lunch, takes a ferry to Manhattan and spends the evening with his bossy, Tarot-reading girlfriend, Emily, on whom he plans to spring a big question. Throughout the day, Toole struggles to be rational while buffeted by fears and yearnings. Thoughts of sex and death keep intruding on his ruminations over quantum spookiness, the neural code, the Singularity and free will. Pay Attention is a profane, profound meditation on the entanglements of our inner and outer worlds and the elusiveness of truth.

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Instance of stream of consciousness of a contemporary male character, Eamon, over the course of a single day. Unusually, stream of consciousness is combined with supposedly recorded conversations, highlighting how special stream of consciousness is, rendered here very convincingly.It thrilled me. I could identify so much with the main character's man-thinking, though my thoughts are not as dynamic as his and I'm not competitive, not so self-condemning. His self-condemning may stem from testosterone-fuelled thinking that he identifies with strongly and is proud of.The book is subtitled "Sex, Death, and Science." Scientific judgment appears to be the foundation Eamon has built his identity around, but he accepts sex as a challenge to his self-regard. He feels vulnerable to a female character Ellen's judgments on him, that he feels he has less insight into, can protect himself from less easily, than he has into science.For me "Pay Attention" is a respectable work of literature. When future people want to understand our time, this could be a substantial guide for them, both in what it contains and what's missing. I do think it conveys the hollowness of our age's self-image.Most of all, I think women can get a very good idea of men's thinking from this story. It's uncannily similar to mine.
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