{"product_id":"one-hand-clapping-unraveling-the-mystery-of-the-human-mind-hardcover","title":"One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNikolay Kukushkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin reveals how consciousness evolved out of the natural world, from the birth of the cell to the majesty of our modern minds.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScience says that you are nothing but a chemical reaction--a collection of atoms and molecules, like rocks, paperclips, and everything else in the physical universe. But if that's so, where is the place in this world for your consciousness? In a word, why does it feel so special to be you? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike the Zen Buddhist riddle pondering the imponderable--the sound of a single hand clapping--One Hand Clapping asks the seemingly unanswerable question of how the human mind came to exist within the material world. In search of an answer, neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin takes readers on a billion-year journey through time from the roots of our existence to the advent of Homo sapiens, reimagining the story of our evolution. The result is an exhilarating book that embeds our consciousness within a single, unified story of life on Earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIlluminated by Kukushkin's revolutionary account of what makes us what we are, the so-called \"hard problem\" of consciousness--the mystery by which our first-person feelings arise from the brain--evaporates like a dream. Instead, the book reveals the deep continuity between our consciousness and nature itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of ambitious intellectual scope, One Hand Clapping is distinguished as much by its originality as by the breadth of its imaginative reach--drawing from neuroscience, evolution, philosophy, and a rich tapestry of cultural references, all brought to life by the author's own whimsical illustrations. Told with the drama and daring of a mythical epic, it reaches deep into our oceanic past to show for the first time how the entire course of Earth's history, from the earliest nonliving particles, ultimately led to the formation of our own minds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a time of technological confusion, Kukushkin's book is an ode to the human being--an unfolding of Nature itself, blessed with the gift to contemplate the world and to hear the sound of one hand clapping. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Nikolay Kukushkin\u003c\/b\u003e is a Russian-born neuroscientist based in Brooklyn, NY, and is the author of the widely acclaimed \u003ci\u003eOne Hand Clapping\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in Russian in 2020. The book won the most prestigious book prize for Russian nonfiction, the Enlightener (\u003ci\u003eProsvetitel)\u003c\/i\u003e Award, as well as the Alexander Belyaev Medal, awarded to the best Russian-language nonfiction and science fiction. Kukushkin is a clinical associate professor at New York University's Liberal Studies, and a research fellow at NYU's Center for Neural Science, where he studies the role of time patterns in memory formation. This book is loosely based on his acclaimed course at NYU, \"Life Science.\" He holds degrees from St. Petersburg State University (Russia) and Oxford University, and received post-doctoral training at the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. He has authored and co-authored multiple publications in prestigious scientific journals (\u003ci\u003eNeuron\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePNAS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNature Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e) including a recent groundbreaking paper in \u003ci\u003eNature Communications\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrating canonical memory in non-neural cells. Prior to leaving Russia he had spent much of his life facing political turmoil, from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 when he was 3 years old, to the poverty and instability of 1990s, to the rise of authoritarianism in the 2000s and 2010s, which culminated in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.21 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51889852580128,"sku":"9781493090648","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/kNZ4jon8FZ9781493090648.webp?v=1781938753","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/one-hand-clapping-unraveling-the-mystery-of-the-human-mind-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}