Book · 1998 · Bewusstsein
The user illusion
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Your book, User Illusion, is the best on consciousness I’ve ever read.
Jordan Peterson · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Apr 2024 Listen at 1:39:25 What they say about it
- Call it the best book on consciousness“best book on consciousness”2
- Note it as a familiar work“the book I know best”2
The best things said about it
For everyone watching and listening, I highly recommend User Illusion; it has a lot to teach you.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Apr 2024 The User Illusion" by Tor Nørretranders was the best one in the lot as far as I was concerned, and it taught me a lot.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Apr 2024 The book I know best is probably his most famous work called 'The User Illusion.'.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Apr 2024 I really became interested in your work because of the user illusion which I read quite a long time ago probably about 10 years after you published it.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Apr 2024 Why people recommend it
The User Illusion by Tor Nørretranders is a profound exploration of consciousness, information theory, and human psychology that investigates the vast gap between what our brains process and what we consciously experience. Jordan Peterson has repeatedly praised the book, describing it on the Lex Fridman Podcast and multiple episodes of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast as the single best book on consciousness he has ever read. Peterson noted that the volume holds a permanent spot on his curated online reading list because of its exceptional technical analysis of intelligence and human awareness. During an interview with the author himself, Peterson shared how he originally discovered the work roughly a decade after its publication and explained how deeply it influenced his intellectual trajectory. He emphasized that the book offers invaluable lessons about cognitive processing and highly recommended it to audiences seeking a deeper understanding of the mind. The commentators stressed that Nørretranders successfully illustrates how human conscious awareness is merely a tiny fraction of total mental activity, providing readers with a transformative perspective on perception, information, and the nature of subjective reality.
Every mention
Jordan Peterson You know, it's kind of interesting from the perspective of technical analysis of intelligence, and there's… 8
“You know, it's kind of interesting from the perspective of technical analysis of intelligence, and there's a good book called "The User Illusion," which is the best book on consciousness that I ever read.”
“The book I know best is probably his most famous work called 'The User Illusion.'”
“the book I know best is probably his most famous book called the user illusion”
“'The User Illusion' by Tor Nørretranders was the best one in the lot as far as I was concerned, and it taught me a lot.”
“I really became interested in your work because of the user illusion which I read quite a long time ago probably about 10 years after you published it”
“and I picked the books very carefully and yours is one of them that user illusion”
“I have a list of recommended books online, and yours is one of them, Tor. Your book, User Illusion, is the best on consciousness I’ve ever read.”
“For everyone watching and listening, I highly recommend User Illusion; it has a lot to teach you.”
Tor Nørretranders explaining this Paradigm of predictive processing who kind enough to say that the that the Deep idea behind… 1
“explaining this Paradigm of predictive processing who kind enough to say that the that the Deep idea behind it actually was in this book the user illusion”
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