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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story | Jim Holt
7 posts | 8 read | 7 to read
Expands the search for the origins of the universe beyond God and the Big Bang theory, exploring more bizarre possibilities inspired by physicists, theologians, mathematicians, and even novelists.
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Taylor
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Pickpick

I love stuff like this—and savored the attitude shifts Holt vacillates through...sometimes playful when confronting the big question this book proposes; other times serious, and heavy.

All in all it made me think. I thought about it.... I thought some more. I rejected certain stuff, embraced other parts, but appreciated getting to have so much of the purview wrapped in a tidy, accessible volume for me to tackle.

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Taylor

My second nonfiction book in a row—when I don‘t normally read nonfiction—and I‘m finding it mind blowing. It‘s the exact kind of thing I‘m into.

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Taylor

Maybe the part of reality we know indirectly through science, the physical part, has the same inner nature as the part we know directly through introspection, the conscious part. In other words, maybe all of reality—subjective and objective—is made out of the same basic stuff. That is a pleasingly simple hypothesis. But isn‘t it a bit crazy?

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Taylor

In the opening pages of “The Fabric of Reality,” Deutsch had written, “I do not believe that we are now, or ever shall be, close to understanding everything there is.” Still, he had managed to impress one positive lesson on me: that there is a lot more to reality than we might imagine. The part of it we inhabit not only is tiny, but also may be grossly unrepresentative of the whole, giving us a partial and distorted view.

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kez_dispencer
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speljamr
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Pickpick

Pondering existence and nothing.

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speljamr
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When your coworker, who loves bears, leaves you a note in your book.