📚 8 Books mentioned in "Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works | Lex Fridman Podcast #129" of Lex Fridman Podcast

she is the author of a book that revolutionized our understanding of emotion in the brain called how emotions are made and she's coming out with a new book called seven and a half lessons about the brain that you can and should pre-order now

The host introduces the guest, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and mentions her previous book, 'How Emotions Are Made'.

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uh like the book sapiens and the fact that we're able to kind of connect like network our brains together like you write about

The host mentions the book 'Sapiens' in the context of human ability to network brains and coordinate.

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she is the author of a book that revolutionized our understanding of emotion in the brain called how emotions are made and she's coming out with a new book called seven and a half lessons about the brain that you can and should pre-order now

The host introduces the guest, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and mentions her upcoming new book, 'Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain'.

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so i think you're talking about the evolution of beauty the um book that was written recently by was it from um without his name richard from

The guest mentions a book about the evolution of beauty and tries to recall the author's name, identifying him as 'Richard from'.

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so um i think it was michael pollan i don't remember if it was in the botany of desire but it was in one of his early books on um on botany and gardening where he wrote about um and he wrote about uh you know plants sort of utilizing humans for their own you know evolutionary purposes which is kind of interesting

The guest mentions Michael Pollan and his book 'The Botany of Desire' as an example of thinking about plants utilizing humans for evolutionary purposes.

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for sure when I start reading the rise and fall of the third reich and start thinking about nazi germany I can empathize with everybody involved

The host mentions reading 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' as an example of engaging with difficult historical topics to foster empathy.

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really i was listening to robert reich's the system he was talking about oligarchy versus democracy

The guest mentions listening to Robert Reich's book 'The System' and his discussion of oligarchy versus democracy.

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darwin wrote in the origin of species about before darwin's book a species was thought to be a classical category where all the instances of dogs were the same had exactly the same features

The guest mentions Darwin's book 'On the Origin of Species' in the context of biological categories and variation.

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