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The loss of el dorado - VS Naipaul - I read it many years ago and read it again. It really influenced me in terms of how one could think about a place. A couple of others -- Ficciones, Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges Independent People - Halldoor Laxness On 15 November 2014 at 03:59, Thaths wrote

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Godel, Escher Bach. Douglas Hofstadter. Read it when I was seventeen, understood very little, but was absolutely staggered by what little I did understand. Godel's Incompleteness theorem changed my life view, if math could not be 'perfect,' what could?

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On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Thaths wrote: > Which book made *you*, dear Silk lister, change your mind? How? Rudy Rucker's _Infinity and the Mind_. 1. It kicked off a lifelong fascination with the concept of infinity. 2. It provided an accessible introduction to Godel's Incompleteness Theor

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The most important book in my life was Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich”, which I read in my teens. Because while I’ve always read obsessively, all I read up till then was formulaic sci-fi, often re-reading the same one over and over. It taught me that other kinds of books

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Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman As a rationalist and skeptic, I had been extremely suspicious of "woo woo" claims about meditation, but I was interested is Dan Goleman's research into meditation and stress and I was intrigued by the "scientific di

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I was happy to see The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind on the list in the Chronicle (although it's more than 30 years old. Closer to 40, I think.) I remember reading it shortly after it came out, and while some of its conclusions seemed a bit of a stretch, it was

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The Tangled Wing Biological constraints on the human spirit Melvin Konner We are just hormones!! Naresh Narasimhan Sent from my Phone > On 15-Nov-2014, at 4:47 am, Madhu Menon wrote: > > The Design Of Everyday Things - Don Norman

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> > > of > people talking about the books that changed their minds made me wonder > > Which book made *you*, dear Silk lister, change your mind? How? > > A handful of books have had such an impact on me. I need to whittle it do

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Thaths wrote: This post of people talking about the books that changed their minds made me wonder Which book made *you*, dear Silk lister, change your mind? How? That post further restricted matters by limiting acceptable

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The Design Of Everyday Things - Don Norman

[silk] What book changed your mind?

This post of people talking about the books that changed their minds made me wonder Which book made *you*, dear Silk lister, change your mind? How? A handful of books have had such an impact on me. I need to whittle it down t