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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Nick Lane
“author of some of my favorite books on biology science and life ever written including his two most recent titled transformer the deep chemistry of life and death”— Lex Fridman
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The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is?
Nick Lane
“his two most recent titled transformer the deep chemistry of life and death and the vital question why is life the way it is”— Lex Fridman
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane
“i wrote a chapter in in a book called life ascending about consciousness and the subtitle of life ascending was was the ten great inventions of evolution”— Nick Lane
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Nick Lane
“power sex suicide mitochondria and the meaning of life then life ascending the 10 great inventions of evolution”— Lex Fridman
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Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
Nick Lane
“you first you wrote oxygen the molecule that made the world as we've talked about this idea of the role of oxygen in life on earth”— Lex Fridman
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
“noah harrari's book 21 lessons for the 21st century and he's written about this kind of thing on various occasions”— Nick Lane
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The Black Cloud
Fred Hoyle
“i remember reading a book by fred hoyle called the black cloud which i was a budding biologist at the time and this was the first time i'd come across someone really challenging the heart of biology”— Nick Lane
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The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
“some say that even darwin lessen the power of his arguments in the origin of species there's multiple revisions in which he dealt with criticisms”— Nick Lane
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams (inferred)
“you write in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy ford perfect spends 15 years researching his revision to the guide's entry on the earth which originally read harmless”— Nick Lane
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The Act of Creation
Arthur Koestler
“there's a nice uh book by arthur cursler on um on on the nature of creativity and and he likens it to a joke where the punchline goes off in a completely unexpected direction”— Nick Lane
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Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky (inferred)
“you're almost basically uh what is notes from underground but dusty like just just constantly complaining about life”— Lex Fridman
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick (inferred)
“one of the moving moments in the movies from when i was a boy was the the unplugging of hal in 2001 where that was the death of a sentient being”— Nick Lane
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The Matrix
The Wachowskis (inferred)
“the idea in in matrix movies and so on that the whole world is completely a construction um and we're fundamentally deluded”— Nick Lane
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