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Highly recommend The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku.
In Book One, he covers the history of the brain and new instruments for studying the brain. In Book Two, he explores this new technology which has made recording memories, mind reading, videotaping dreams and telekinesis possible. In Book Three, he covers alternate forms of consciousness, from dreams, drugs and mental illness to robots and aliens. Particularly interesting, he discusses the potential for controlling and manipulating the brain to manage diseases such as depression, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and more. And, typically for Kaku, he keeps the details very understandable. Also, he interviewed a lot of scientists which makes the book that much more credible. |
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Do we need to read it chronologically, or would we miss important points and could get side-tracked if we proceed to the latter books? |
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Biocentrism examines the role conciousness in physics.
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I love that the book description on Amazon has this gem: "Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world". Strangely, it omits the fact that Lanza is a medical doctor, and not a physicist or evolutionary biologist. |
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Ancient debunked philosophy masquerading as science. http://nirmukta.com/2009/12/14/bioce...ious-universe/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...bert_lanza_do/ .... |
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Thanks. The book's description made me suspicious and the reviews too, but I looked up Lanza and saw that he was indeed a scientist if not in the field he is tackling here, and I was wondering if the book might be worth reading anyway. But that Wired article settles it. Here's a quote from the book:
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I would hardly put Penrose in that company. Chopra, of course, but not someone who once shared the Wolf Prize for physics with Stephen Hawking.
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A book I read, enjoyed for the most part (except for the math), and thoroughly disagreed with the central idea was Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark. But as strange as is that idea that "all structures that exist mathematically exist also physically" and that any structures complex enough to contain self-aware substructures will subjectively perceive themselves as existing in a physically real world, I would hardly call him a peddler of "woo". I'd say he's simply another scientist who has a fascinating Theory Of Everything into which I have not been sold. Besides, the rest of his book is very mainstream, even if his main thesis is a throwback, in my opinion, to Pythagoras.
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Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, is most assuredly not in that category. He's one of the foremost living mathematical physicists.
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He truly is with respect to cognitive science. He stepped way out of line with his "The Emperor's New Mind" and has deviated much further since then. He's a fine mathematician and even something of a physicist but he's a total woo-pusher with his quantum mind speculation.
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I have nothing against speculation as long as it is presented as such, but with the lack of scientific understanding of the general public they often confuse these things with science and/or reality and that is the real problem. The tainting of science. |
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