Ha! Only through a grandiose stretch. I'm a writer, specifically these days a speechwriter. In the 1980s I first caught the bug through the question of consciousness. I read a few books that told me about structures in the brain, which I typically forget (except for my few favorites) and then remember when I watch talks by real brain scientists.
At that time the one mind-blower of the books I got my hands on was Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. It was the first time I'd seen someone postulate a quasi-evolutionary step that gets you from "huh?" to self-awareness. I must say at the time I was of a spiritual bent and it was appealing to me to see science finally point in the direction of what's been impervious to objective inquiry, i.e., subjective experience. (To me this was actually spiritually fulfilling, not a turn-off.)
More recently as I started seeing what was bandied about at various Comms conferences, I got progressively more interested in how language works - more precisely, how effective language works. Lots of Comms numbskulls look at this as tricks you can use to improve the speech; I look at it as pointing back toward the problem of consciousness.
I double-majored in college (undergrad only I'm afraid) in English and religion. I can now make the world's greatest powerpoint on why engagement is central to effective communication, blah blah blah, and invoke a 2010 Princeton Study to make a smart science guy believe me. Etcetera. But remove the almighty dollar from the equation and I'd probably lock myself in a room with neuroscience lectures 24/7, particularly those that are tilting at the question of life, the universe, and everything - that is, the question of subjective consciousness (and the reality or unreality of same)... and those on how language works. I don't know how anybody can not be concerned with or interested in these questions.
I might now bug you incessantly.
