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Dr. John LaCasse returns to the Sunbury Press Books Show to discuss quantum physics, science, spirituality, and philosophy, along with a few light-hearted sidetracks. His new book, Fight for the Quantum: Essays on Spirituality and Science, is a collection of takes, described as a lively polemic that examines the "hard problem" of consciousness--why physical states give rise to subject experience.

The talk with Dr. Lawrence Knorr ranges from questions about the argument against the "flat earth," due to birds and magnetic fields, to the question of whether SpongeBob SquarePants could possibly exist in the world as we know it.

Dr. John LaCasse is also the author of Deals, Danger, Destiny, The Hunters, and Floppy Feathers, all available at Sunbury Press. He is a member of The American Association of University Professors, holds academic honoraria in Kappa Delta Pi and Golden Key, with a biographical profile in MARQUIS Who's Who. Dr. LaCasse is also is the 2025 winner of the 59th Street Medal for Literature. He lives in Seattle, Washington.