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Peter Gelfan
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New York
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August 2012
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Found Objects
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2013
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Monkey Temple: A novel
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Monkey Temple
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| This book isn’t so much about how different parts of our brains process information in different ways for different purposes, which isn’t news anymore. Mlodinow’s book is about how as individuals we can put that cognitive diversity to better use. It’ ...more | |
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| The perennial controversy about which came first, consciousness or the physical universe, takes a new twist with this book (and its earlier forerunners by the same authors). Their approach, while stemming from the uber-physics of quantum theory and r ...more | |
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| This book bills itself as “A Global History of Philosophy,” yet while it does cover some history, it’s far more than that. It can also be read as a comparative survey of world philosophies, but it’s more than that, too. It calls into question our ent ...more | |
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| At one level, this book is a whiz-bang tour through emerging technologies that within years or a decade or two may radically change our lives, and it’s a fun, interesting read. The book’s premise goes deeper than that, though, to explain how convergi ...more | |
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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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