Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe
By: George Musser
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory exploration of why a "theory of everything" is likely to depend on a theory of mind. …
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1. Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
By: Giulio Tononi
3.90
Format: 380 pages, ebook
This title is printed in full color throughout.From one of the most original and influential neuros… read more
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"(...) we should strive to grow consciousness itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe."-Giulio Tononi, Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
"He put his ear to his own chest and listened to the heart. How could the pulse go on, beat after beat, for all of life? No machine could run that long without a stumble. Ask not if the beating cranks…"-Giulio Tononi, Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
2. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: None
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Our Mathematical Universeis a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discov… read more
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3. Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything
By: Amanda Gefter
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
In a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene's The Hidden Rea… read more
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4. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
5. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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6. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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7. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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8. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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9. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
By: Jim Sciutto
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more
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10. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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11. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
12. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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13. 2054
By: Elliot Ackerman
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more
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14. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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15. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
16. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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17. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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18. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the second book of this already internationally acclaimed series, Sean Carroll, the most trusted… read more
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19. Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
By: Avi Loeb
3.51
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
“The world's leading alien hunter” — New York Times Magazine From acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist… read more
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20. Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
By: Harry Cliff
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening ac… read more
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21. The Bogleheads' Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio: How a Simple Portfolio of Three Total Market Index Funds Outperforms Most Investors with Less Risk
By: Taylor Larimore
3.98
Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition
Twenty benefits from the three-fund total market index portfolio. The Bogleheads’ Guide to The Th… read more
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22. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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23. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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24. The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
By: Erik Hoel
3.68
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revoluti… read more
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25. What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
By: Adam Becker
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe… read more
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"Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than …"-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
"Philosophy has an image problem. Philosophers are thought to be mystics, religious figures, bullshit artists—anything divorced from reality... Why is philosophy held in such contempt by many physicis…"-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
26. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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27. The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
By: Paul Halpern
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Our books, our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines, and… read more
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28. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
By: Benjamin Breen
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more
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29. The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
By: Alfonso Martinez Arias
4.05
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
"An ingenious argument" (Kirkus) for a "novel thesis" (Publishers Weekly) that cells, not DNA, hold… read more
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30. Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe
By: George Musser
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory exploration of why a "theory of everything" is likely to depend on a theory of mind. … read more
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31. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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