Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-04-19

Lex Fridman & Risto Miikkulainen: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #177

#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

2 books · With Risto Miikkulainen · Listen · Watch on YouTube

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Lex Fridman discussed The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. Risto Miikkulainen discussed Wonderful Life the Burgess by Stephen Jay Gould.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   The Denial of Death

   Ernest Becker · at 10:03 · mentioned 2 times

   The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.

   Discussed

   “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”

   Lex Fridman #177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation 2021-04-19 Listen at 10:03

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   Wonderful Life the Burgess

   Stephen Jay Gould · at 12:35

   Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould is a celebrated paleontology book that examines the Burgess Shale fossil deposit and contemplates the contingency of evolution and the Cambrian explosion of life.

   Discussed

   “what if um like the wonderful life what if you're not here will somebody else do this”

   Risto Miikkulainen #177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation 2021-04-19 Listen at 12:35

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