Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2013-06-21
Joe Rogan, Jason Silva & Duncan Trussell: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #369
#369 - Jason Silva, Duncan Trussell, Ari Shaffir
Jason Silva is a Venezuelan-American filmmaker, philosopher, and television personality, currently hosting "Brain Games" on NatGeo. Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, and host of his own podcast, "Duncan Trussell Family Hour", available on Spotify.
Jason Silva recommended What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff, and discussed What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly, The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller, and The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly is a philosophical exploration of technology as an autonomous, evolving system driven by its own inherent imperatives.
Discussed“what does that say Kevin Kelly, okay, the the trippy W co-founder of wired in his book what technology wants he calls technology the technium, he says it's the seventh Kingdom of life”
Where to get it
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What the Dormouse Said
What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff investigates the countercultural and psychedelic roots of the personal computer revolution in Silicon Valley.
Recommended“there's a book called by John marov called what the door Mouse says which talks about that where that came from”
Where to get it
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The Mating Mind
The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychology book arguing that the human brain evolved primarily as a complex sexual ornament, much like a peacock's tail, to attract mates through creativity and intelligence.
Discussed“it's called The Mating mind, it was written by Jeffrey Miller and he says that the brain's extraordinary capacities for creativity for discourse for everything we do even build airplanes and iPhones is ultimately our glor version of the peacock feather”
Where to get it
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker is a sweeping historical and data-driven book arguing that violence has steadily declined over the course of human history.
Discussed“steven Pinker called better angels of our nature, he wrote a book called The Better angels of our nature is a tech talk called Ted Talk called the myth of violence and he actually went up there and explained that the chances of a man dying at the hands of another man today are the lowest, and they've ever been”
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