Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2026-08-17
Books mentioned on Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian Greene
Professor Brian Greene reveals the biggest questions science still can’t answer, whether we’re living in a simulation, why AI may deserve human rights, and what happens at the end of the universe!
Brian Greene discussed The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. Steven Bartlett discussed Until the End of Time by Brian Greene.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Denial of Death
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“I read a book I was about in my 20s called The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. He was a social psychologist”
Where to get it
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Until the End of Time
Until the End of Time by Brian Greene is a sweeping exploration of mind, matter, and humanity's search for meaning in an evolving universe through the lens of theoretical physics.
Discussed“I have a couple of your books here. I think this is the most recent one from 2020 called Until the End of Time: Mind Matter and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe.”
Where to get it
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“As you know, I'm pretty esoteric in the book Until the End of Time, I I tried to give the reader a sense of how we got here, but I also then turned to the future and tried to give them a sense of what we'll be if we go arbitrarily far into the future.”