Silvia entered medical school with the purpose of doing research and obtained a PhD in Neuroscience (complex genetics of psychiatric diseases) at Karolinska Institute in 2002. Following post-doctor...ver maisSilvia entered medical school with the purpose of doing research and obtained a PhD in Neuroscience (complex genetics of psychiatric diseases) at Karolinska Institute in 2002. Following post-doctoral training and 4 years of leading her own research team at Karolinska, she switched into consulting and professional problem solving. During her work as a healthcare consultant, she has supported projects focused on data privacy concerns and affordability of innovative medicines, while spending most of her spare time with on the problem of consciousness. The result is this book called “Plato’s Prisoners,” in which Silvia and her brother Thomas introduce Flip-Book Idealism (FBI) to support the notion that consciousness, and not spacetime or matter, is primary.ver menos