Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-02-29

Books mentioned on #76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

2 books · With John Hopfield · Listen · Watch on YouTube

John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, he saw the messy world of biology through the piercing eyes of a physicist.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

1. 

   The mind is flat

   Nick Chater · at 41:34

   Discussed

   “Nicholas Chater wrote an interesting book I think the saw delivers the mind is flat flat”

   Lex Fridman #76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology 2020-02-29 Listen at 41:34

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library
2. 

   Einstein's Dreams

   Alan Lightman · at 1:05:43

   Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman is a philosophical novel that explores alternative conceptions of time through a series of dream sequences experienced by Albert Einstein in 1905.

   Recommended

   “There was an interesting book called Einsteins dreams Forge alternates between chapters on his life and descriptions of the way time might have been but isn't as linking between these being of course the ideas that Einstein might have had to think about the essence of time as he was thinking about time”

   Lex Fridman #76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology 2020-02-29 Listen at 1:05:43

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library