This perspective was informed by his experiences. He felt that, since the brain is the organ that enables the mind to exist, our ability to form relationships comes directly from our brains. However, literature only offered one piece of the puzzle, and Kalanithi knew he had to keep studying neuroscience. Eliot and his work The Waste Land, which connects meaninglessness to isolation, and came to believe that true meaning lies in human relationships. So, while meaning itself is certainly no simple concept, he drew inspiration from writers like T. Works of fiction remained powerful to him as he considered literature a manifestation of the mind’s life, and therefore of human meaning. Throughout his college career, Kalanithi continued to ponder big questions like, “what infuses life with meaning?”, looking to both literature and neuroscience for answers. He was fascinated by Leven’s idea that the brain is just an organic machine that enables the human mind to exist, so he signed up for courses in biology and neuroscience. Kalanithi was getting ready to head off to Stanford when his then-girlfriend gave him a book by Jeremy Leven called Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr.
During the summer before college, he discovered another field that captivated him: human biology.
It was this passion that informed his decision to study literature in college, but things turned out quite differently than he had planned. While he was growing up, the author, Paul Kalanithi, became obsessed with literary geniuses like Orwell, Camus, Sartre, Poe and Thoreau.
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