Jason Reza Jorjani presents an information-theoretic interpretation of material discussed in his book Thanosis. He draws connections among reported past-life memories, near-death and out-of-body experiences, synchronicity, and close-encounter accounts.
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He develops a speculative computational model of consciousness and the cosmos, then argues for renewed investigation of psychotronic devices. The accounts, hypotheses and conclusions in this presentation are Jorjani’s interpretations, recorded in September 2026.
Jason Reza Jorjani is a philosopher born in 1981 and raised in New York City. His mother is a native New Yorker of mixed Northern European ancestry. His father is Persian and a descendant of Iran’s Qajar dynasty.
He attended the Fleming School and the Dalton School, earned his BA and MA from New York University, and received his PhD in Philosophy from Stony Brook University in 2013.
While living in Manhattan, Jorjani taught at several universities in the New York–New Jersey metropolitan area. His courses covered the history of philosophy, Heidegger, Iranian history, science, technology and society (STS), the philosophy of technology, comparative religion, and ethics.
He is the author of seventeen books:
Prometheus and Atlas (2016)
World State of Emergency (2017)
Lovers of Sophia (2017; republished 2019)
Novel Folklore (2018)
Iranian Leviathan (2019)
Prometheism (2020)
Closer Encounters (2021)
Promethean Pirate (2022)
Artemis Unveiled (2023)
Psychotron (2023)
Erosophia (2024)
Philosophy of the Future (2024)
Metapolemos (2025)
Thanosis (2025)
Fundamental Thinkers (2026)
Occult Horizons (2026)
Prometheus and Atlas received the Parapsychological Association’s 2016 Book Award. Jorjani is an associate member of the association and a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE). He has appeared in more than a hundred video interviews and podcasts.
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