Reads tagged with “John Brockman”

The Best Science Books of 2015
From Earth’s largest-hearted creature to the interconnectedness of the universe, by way of Einstein and artificial intelligence.

This Idea Must Die: Some of the World’s Greatest Thinkers Each Select a Major Misconception Holding Us Back
From the self to left brain vs. right brain to romantic love, a catalog of broken theories that hold us back from the conquest of Truth.

Big Thinkers on the Only Things Worth Worrying About
A cross-disciplinary kaleidoscope of intelligent concerns for the self and the species.

How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition
“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.”

The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012
From Buddhism to the relationship between creativity and dishonesty, by way of storytelling and habit.

What to Think About Machines That Think: Leading Thinkers on Artificial Intelligence and What It Means to Be Human
“Once we had neurons. Now we’re becoming the neurons.”

The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions
How a needle, a shower curtain, and a New England clam explain the possibility of parallel universes.

The 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall Favorites
Soul-stirring, brain-expanding reads on intuition, love, grief, attention, education, and the meaning of life.

This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works
“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.”

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