Love David Deutsch, but fucking hate the twat talking

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Thus Spoke Zarathushtra - Nietzsche
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Dhammapada
Othello - Shakespeare
The Divine Comedy - Dante
The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
Sophie's choice - William Styron
Le petit Nicolas - Jean-Jacques Sempé

SHIT! HOW COULD I FORGET DAVID DEUTSCH!!?! Oh man! That book is SO AMAZING!! Argh, now I'm kicking myself for SURE!

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications by David Deutsch is the best science book I've read in probably 10 years.

1. Papillon - Henri Charrière
2. Henderson, the rain king - Saul Bellow
3. Less than zero - Bret Easton Ellis
4. Altered carbon - Richard K. Morgan
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
6. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
7. Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
8. The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
9. Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
10. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut jr.

- the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett; also Good Omens, which he wrote with Neil Gaiman
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (first part of Takeshi Kovacs' trilogy)
- Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut (hard to single out any of his books, they're all great imo)
- Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
- The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
- The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch (a four-strand theory of everything)
and then some

Thanks for the notice. Their old player was pretty bad, and this new one is kind of meh. Best to change them with the youtube/google versions.

Fav TED talk(s)?

David Deutsch
http://documentaries.videosift.com/video/Physicist-David-Deutsch-Delightful-Talk-of-the-Universe
and Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-Schools-Today-Kill-Creativity-Sir-Ken-Robinson-TED

>> ^MINK:
i have actually read this book and i can assure you it's bollocks.
i also read the bible a bit. that was bollocks too.
therefore, bollocks.


is that what they call quantum logic? I actualy agree with you, that book was kinda boring. you should try reading David Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality, it'll blow your minds

you know, it's a little late, but thank you for posting this comment, I actually just really read it and love it. You said what I wanted to say only better... :

In reply to this comment by kulpims:
you're all thinking in terms of rational explanations. what if there is none and the thing still works? if particle entaglement experiments have shown us anything it's that not only is all matter just energy but that everything in the universe is interconnected. the point is, we don't know shit yet. the behaviour of particles at quantum level shows bizzare results we are unable to backup properly with our newtonian ways. as we discovered that observation inevitably affects the results of experiments we were no longer just voayers looking from the outside into this newtonian rube-goldberg apparatus we call universe - we are the apparatus. our current description of reality is a sketch at best. i like the work David Bohm did with Karl Pribram on holonomic model of the brain and his ideas of the role consciencesness has in this universe. another wacko i like is David Deutsch and his four-strand theory of everything.
a quote from wiki about his theory:

"It aims not at the reduction of everything to particle physics, but rather mutual support among multiverse, computational, epistemological, and evolutionary principles."

you're all thinking in terms of rational explanations. what if there is none and the thing still works? if particle entaglement experiments have shown us anything it's that not only is all matter just energy but that everything in the universe is interconnected. the point is, we don't know shit yet. the behaviour of particles at quantum level shows bizzare results we are unable to backup properly with our newtonian ways. as we discovered that observation inevitably affects the results of experiments we were no longer just voayers looking from the outside into this newtonian rube-goldberg apparatus we call universe - we are the apparatus. our current description of reality is a sketch at best. i like the work David Bohm did with Karl Pribram on holonomic model of the brain and his ideas of the role consciencesness has in this universe. another wacko i like is David Deutsch and his four-strand theory of everything.
a quote from wiki about his theory:

"It aims not at the reduction of everything to particle physics, but rather mutual support among multiverse, computational, epistemological, and evolutionary principles."

Hrm, i thought I had voted for this before.....like here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Physicist-David-Deutschs-Delightful-Talk-of-the-UniverseTED

Physicist David Deutsch presents: The Wonderful Human Brain

David describes innovative ways to extract and prepare the human brain. The risks of eating raw brains, great marinades and dessert ideas. 19:45 long.

Yeah. Last time my David Deutsch post slowly died in the queue.