📚 1 Books mentioned in "Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #177" of Lex Fridman Podcast
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #177
Published on April 19, 2021
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The Denial of Death
Buy The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, Ernest Becker on Amazon
so like there's a i don't know if you're familiar there's a philosopher named ernest becker who wrote the denial of death and his whole idea and there's folks psychologists cognitive scientists that work on terror management theory and they think that one of the special things about humans is that we're able to sort of foresee our death
Lex Fridman mentions the philosopher Ernest Becker and his book 'The Denial of Death' in the context of human awareness of mortality and its connection to creativity and terror management theory.