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In the aftermath of your shattering disease, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now" where she has almost no recollections of the past and a almost complete inability to create new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional female and the groundbreaking revelations about recollection, learning, and consciousness her unique circumstance has uncovered. Lonni Sue Johnson was a renowned designer who regularly produced features for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, an experienced amateur pilot, and a joyful presence to all who recognized her. However in later 2007, she contracted encephalitis. The disease burned up through her hippocampus like wildfire, leaving her greatly amnesic, living in a present-day that rarely advances beyond 10 to quarter-hour. Extremely, she still keeps a lot of the intellect and imaginative skills from her prior life, but it's not whatsoever clear how strongly her consciousness resembles yours or mine. As a result, Lonni Sue's story is becoming part of your much larger scientific narrative - the one that is currently challenging traditional intelligence about how individuals memory and awareness are stored in the mind. Within this probing, compassionate, and illuminating booklet, award-winning research journalist Michael D. Lemonick uses the initial drama of Lonni Sue Johnson's day-to-day life to give us a nuanced and personal knowledge of the research that is situated at the very heart of individuals nature.
