"This is a problem: what to do after psychoanalysis, and before Dennett’s mystery-banishing total explanation of consciousness has arrived?" - laura from Bookmarklet

hmmm... bit conflicted about this text, so ominous. I don't think 'neuronovels' have to be about mental illnesses only, and I don't think such novels necessarily point to shrinking importance of the novel in general. more like people are slowly accepting that the mind is (more or less) the brain and those who are writers explore that realization in fiction. there's probably more to it but i'm not sure this essay addresses that, whatever it is. - Christopher Harris