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Frank Peter
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Wow, this book really ties the room together!
And with 'room' I mean the additions to my 'read' & 'to-read' lists of the last 2 years: it almost seems written especially for me!
Psychology, neuroscience, consciousness, (intellectual) history, philosophy, religion, China, Asia, 'the West', east-west connections, archeology—so far basically every page has fascinated me. At this point I wish it had thousands of pages!
— Aug 12, 2018 10:01AM
And with 'room' I mean the additions to my 'read' & 'to-read' lists of the last 2 years: it almost seems written especially for me!
Psychology, neuroscience, consciousness, (intellectual) history, philosophy, religion, China, Asia, 'the West', east-west connections, archeology—so far basically every page has fascinated me. At this point I wish it had thousands of pages!
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Frank Peter
is on page 275 of 576
Chptr on wonders of Song Dyn. Neo-C'ism was first 'weak' one. Liked it as an intro to Neo-C. thought, but pretending it on par with 20th cent. science, and that Song era philosophers were Einsteins & Bohrs avant la lettres, is silly. Deepak Chopra-like, New Age-like, or ... Fritjof Capra of the 1970s-like?
+, why is Neo-C'ism Lent's chosen 'way'? Why wouldn't Taoism or Shintoism work, or Spinozism or Einsteinism?
— Aug 16, 2018 03:21AM
+, why is Neo-C'ism Lent's chosen 'way'? Why wouldn't Taoism or Shintoism work, or Spinozism or Einsteinism?
Frank Peter
is on page 81 of 576
So far so good. It's very similar to & basically in agreement with Harari's Sapiens (in which 'stories' are a driving force in history since the 'cognitive revolution'; though Lent goes a little deeper into the science behind the 'cognitive' stuff), but Lent doesn't seem to be aware of the book. Harari's book is mentioned in the foreword by Capra only.
Harari expresses these ideas more elegantly; Lent more deeply.
— Aug 11, 2018 03:40AM
Harari expresses these ideas more elegantly; Lent more deeply.
