Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy
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A guest post by Daniel Böttger
I am Daniel Böttger1. In 2023, my review of On The Marble Cliffs took second in the ACX book review contest, and Scott offered me the right to pitch him more essays. I have worked as a neuroscientist, so in 2024 I pitched a post with my theory of consciousness. Later that year, my connection to neuroscience took an unexpected turn, and I wrote about my experience getting diagnosed with brain cancer. This post is an update on how I’m doing. I’m doing well. Very well, in fact. Suspiciously well. So well that the only other person I’ve ever heard of doing as well as I am was Jo Cameron, who…
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