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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
“had a big impact on my thinking”
“ernest becker's book denial of death had a big impact on my thinking about human cognition consciousness and the deep ocean currents of our mind”— Lex Fridman
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
“i think that's a fine book”
“i'm with uh a harare with the sapiens that we're kind of we seem to construct ideas on top of each other”— guest
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Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
“a novelist that i like”
“the sherwood anderson guy he's a novelist that i like he wrote a book called winesburg ohio”— guest
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The Plague
Albert Camus
“i find the plague is a brilliant”
“the last line of the plague we learn in times of pestilence that there's more to admire in men than to despise and i love that”— guest
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Clock Without Hands
Carson McCullers
“i'm enamored with a novel”
“i'm enamored with a novel by a woman named carson mccullers written in 1953 called clock without hands and i find it a brilliant literary depiction”— guest
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Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
“is a fine book”
“i like faulkner absalom absalom is is a fine book”— guest
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The Warm at the Core
Sheldon Solomon
“co-author of the warm at the core on the role of death and life”— host
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The Office
BBC / NBC (inferred)
“have you ever watched the office if you have you probably know it's based on a uk series also called the office”— Lex Fridman
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Escape from Evil
Ernest Becker
“the what became escape from evil uh his wife marie becker finished”— guest
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The Birth and Death of Meaning
Ernest Becker
“there's another book the birth and death of meaning uh which is framed um in from an evolutionary perspective”— guest
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Dreamthorp
Alexander Smith
“it was alexander smith in in a book called dreamthwarp i think it's written in the 1860s he just says it is our knowledge that we have to die that makes us human”— guest
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Homo Aestheticus
Ellen Dissanayake
“another woman ellen dizzinayake wrote a book called homo aestheticus and following aristotle and his poetics”— guest
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Maps of Meaning
Jordan Peterson
“jordan was working on his maps of meaning and we were publishing our work”— guest
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The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker
“that would basically be like stephen pinker's blank slate”— guest
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
“melville does the same thing in moby dick where he he thinks about will there ever come a time where we run out of whales”— guest
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
“the thomas pickerty guy who writes about capital and just makes the point that return on investment will always be greater than wages”— guest
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Collapse
Jared Diamond
“so i'm with jared diamond you know in the book collapse where he points out studying the collapse of major civilizations”— guest
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer (inferred)
“i've been reading uh the the rise and fall of the third reich and i mean the amount of anger and hatred”— Lex Fridman
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Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
“a year or two ago i started reading uh martin heidegger i'm reading being in time”— guest
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In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
Amin Maalouf
“amin malouf a lebanese guy who writes in french who in the 1990s i think wrote a book called in the name of identity violence and the need to belong”— guest
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Darwin's Cathedral
David Sloan Wilson
“it's david sloane wilson wrote a book called darwin's cathedral and he said religion has nothing to do with death”— guest
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
“i'm going here from richard dawkins uh the selfish gene you know i love the early dawkins”— guest
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How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker
“stephen pinker i do agree with his claim and i think how the mind works that it is the key question for the psychological sciences”— guest
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Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm
“it's eric fromm uh in a book called escape from freedom he's like look you're smart enough to know”— guest
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Regaining Consciousness
Nicholas Humphrey
“nicholas humphrey a british dude who wrote a book about i think it's called regaining consciousness and he hypothesized”— guest
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Ulysses
James Joyce
“it took me 40 years to read ulysses i could not get past the first five pages”— guest
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Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
“i guess read parts of finnegan's wake no way but like there's a difference between reading and i don't think i understood anything”— guest
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Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler
“oswald spangler who wrote a book called decline of the west and he says the philosopher the german philosopher guerta”— guest
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