A young man notices a glimpse of a pattern in his perception after an experience with drugs. At first, it seems insignificant. But when it doesn’t go away—and he realises he’s not alone in what he’s experiencing—he begins to enquire further.
Display is a psychological novella that follows the inner experience of a young man, whose encounters with substances—and the effect they have on his perception—begin to shape the way he understands reality.
Told with calm precision and unflinching honesty, Display questions what the patterns seen in altered states actually are, explores what perception is made from, and follows an individual as he moves deeper into his own experience in search of meaning.
While the book includes experiences with psychedelics and other substances, its focus is not on the substances themselves, but on perception, meaning, and the fragile boundary between the imagination and reality.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - What Display Is Actually SayingDisplay follows a young man whose experimentation with altered states begins to undermine something he had always taken for granted: that the world he sees is reality itself. Hallucinations, waking dreams and persistent changes in perception lead him to question where experience actually exists. If the brain receives signals and constructs everything we see, hear and feel, then perhaps the world appearing before us is not reality itself, but a representation created within consciousness.This becomes the central idea behind the title. Like a computer, the brain can be thought of as hardware, the mind as software, and conscious experience as the display. The colours, objects, sounds and physical world we experience appear on this internal display, but they are not necessarily the underlying reality that produces them. As the narrator pushes further into this idea, the boundary between perception, imagination, dreams and reality becomes increasingly uncertain-and his search for understanding becomes increasingly dangerous.Ultimately, Display asks a deceptively simple question: what is experience actually made of The narrator comes to see physical reality as the presentation of something deeper and non-physical-ideas, imagination or consciousness taking form as the world we experience. What begins as experimentation with drugs becomes a philosophical journey into perception itself, asking whether the solid external world we assume we inhabit may instead be the display through which something far more fundamental is experienced. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781763711440
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What Display Is Actually SayingDisplay follows a young man whose experimentation with altered states begins to undermine something he had always taken for granted: that the world he sees is reality itself. Hallucinations, waking dreams and persistent changes in perception lead him to question where experience actually exists. If the brain receives signals and constructs everything we see, hear and feel, then perhaps the world appearing before us is not reality itself, but a representation created within consciousness.This becomes the central idea behind the title. Like a computer, the brain can be thought of as hardware, the mind as software, and conscious experience as the display. The colours, objects, sounds and physical world we experience appear on this internal display, but they are not necessarily the underlying reality that produces them. As the narrator pushes further into this idea, the boundary between perception, imagination, dreams and reality becomes increasingly uncertain-and his search for understanding becomes increasingly dangerous.Ultimately, Display asks a deceptively simple question: what is experience actually made of? The narrator comes to see physical reality as the presentation of something deeper and non-physical-ideas, imagination or consciousness taking form as the world we experience. What begins as experimentation with drugs becomes a philosophical journey into perception itself, asking whether the solid external world we assume we inhabit may instead be the display through which something far more fundamental is experienced. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781763711440
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