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Peter Gelfan
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Found Objects
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Monkey Temple: A novel
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| This is another of Brockman’s Edge series of collections of answers to the book’s title question, in the form of short (1–4 pages) essays, by 140 or so of the world’s smartest and most independent thinkers. As always, the quick doses of insight are d ...more | |
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| Koch tackles the “hard problem” of philosophy and neuroscience: consciousness. While some dispute that such a thing exists separate from or in addition to the neurological functions that enable us to deal with our bodies and environment, Koch gives c ...more | |
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| The book begins with the history of the universe, as best understood by mainstream science, from its beginning through the emergence of life and humans. Then the author tackles consciousness, whose origins he believes, although he doesn’t insist, con ...more | |
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| This is not a self-help book that promotes a budding guru’s regimen for how you should live your life. It’s a neuroscientist’s thorough survey of our current knowledge about aging, what happens to our bodies, especially our brains, and what we can do ...more | |
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| Schrödinger, an early pioneer of quantum physics, takes on the question of whether life can be explained by the laws of physics. The general scientific assumption these days is that yes, life can be reduced to physics—that physics begets chemistry an ...more | |
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| LeDoux leads readers on a long journey, which I received as two journeys. The first takes us from the initial twitches of life on earth to the advent of humans. What makes this journey different from others you have read is the road he travels. Inste ...more | |
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| The perennial paradox underlying this book: consciousness is a vividly real subjective experience, yet science cannot explain it. Does that mean consciousness is an illusion produced by brain mechanics, or that science’s self-imposed parameters rende ...more | |
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| This book is what it claims to be: short essays on physics for nonscientists. It presents such almost unexplainable concepts as relativity and quantum mechanics in terms almost anyone can grasp as general ideas. He also makes them seem benign, comfor ...more | |
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| This is not just another book about quantum weirdness. Many of us have been hearing for decades that quantum theory has again and again been proven to be the most mathematically precise description of the universe science has ever come up with, and y ...more | |
