The Revelations

By: Erik Hoel

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Monday, Kierk wakes up. Once a rising star in neuroscience, Kierk Suren is now homeless and broken by his all-consuming quest to find a scientific theory of consciousness.

When he’s offered a spot in a prestigious postdoctoral program, he decides to rejoin society and vows not to self-destruct again. Instead of focusing on his work, however, Kierk becomes obsessed with another project—investigating the sudden and suspicious death of a colleague.

As his search for truth brings him closer to Carmen Green, another postdoc, their list of suspects grows, along with the sense that something sinister may be happening all around them...

The Revelations, not unlike its main character, is an ambitious and disarming debut novel that takes an intense look at cutting-edge science, consciousness, and human connection.

©2022 Erik Hoel (P)2022 Podium Audio

just finished it and have no idea what it's about.

An interesting enough story with an abrupt end. I mean abrupt. I thought my download must be broken. I do not know what the point is it was trying to make and I dislike all the loose ends left at the end. But the story was interesting.

It's more a book of poetry then story

It's more a story about the author and his own life as he came to the end of his time studying for his PhD. It is obvious as an author and as a reader and as a high intelligence himself that he was using this book to explore his own personal. Disconnect from the worth of his studies for his PhD.
Unlike his character, Mr. Hoyle did in fact get his PhD, but the issues that he faced at the end of his study were exactly the same ones as our main character. This is more a reflection on what he learned and how he faces the basically uselessness of the six years he spent studying for his PhD.
In his attempts to study the science of consciousness, he came to realize that science could not actually tell him, or even figure out how to describe consciousness in the method in which it works.
He discovered that there is in fact a known phenomenon, consciousness, that science and his opinion at this time with our understanding of theory, the universe, mathematics and logic, cannot be solved with science.
Like the character, he also was a close Co contributor with his mentor in A Fundamental Theory of Consciousness and his PhD paper that he received was from work he did proving that in fact the theory was wrong.

Mr. Hoyle. Is obviously a poet. And a person who shares many of the same traits that the main character has in this book. We shouldn't be surprised that the book ends in a rather unsettled and non realistic way.
Since consciousness is something that exists and yet cannot be proved, can any subject be proved Is the basic thrust of this. What is real and what is not real? Do we exist? Does reality exist? Can you prove one way or the other these are all things that he? Damage in the book and the story is basically a distillation of the answer of no, we can't tell.

Huh?

What was it about? Plot went nowhere, characters weak. Very disappointed. Will return it this evening. Do not plan to read this author again.