Ideas

A collection of books, talks, quotes and ideas that have shaped how I think.

Reading list -> here.

Bookshelf

• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World**
• The Arabs: A History
• Eureka Manifesto**
• Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 3rd Edition
• The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
• The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials, Book 2
• The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials, Book 3
• Logicomix: An epic search for truth
• The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach 1st Edition
• In Praise of Shadows
• Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
• The Selfish Gene**
• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
• When We Cease to Understand the World
• No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
• Siddhartha
• The Origin of Species
• Dune
• Development as Freedom
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Origins of Genius
• When We Cease to Understand the World
• The Whole Earth Catalog
• Godel Escher Bach
• Language, Truth and Logic
• The Analysis of Matter
• The Vital Question
• Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• The Last Question
• Against Interpretation
• Tristes Tropiques

Talks & Lectures

• [ Talk ] Carl Sagan - Evolution of Intelligence
• [ Lectures ] Feynmann - Lectures on Physics

Papers & Articles

• Sequencing is the New Microscope
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication
• Integrated Information Theory
• The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
• Why Drugs Got Harder to Develop and What We Can Do About It.

Quotes

Be strict with the concepts you use to parameterise your mind - form is both constructive and constraining

Have a book recommendation? Please [send it my way]