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Every book Bobby Azarian recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Bobby Azarian has recommended or discussed 5 books on podcasts, as of June 9, 2022.
- Bobby Azarian has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of June 9, 2022.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of June 9, 2022.
- The 3 books Bobby Azarian has mentioned in the most episodes, as of June 9, 2022: A Brief History of Time, The Emergence of Everything and The global brain.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Bobby Azarian aired on June 9, 2022.
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Bobby Azarian appears on podcasts as a science writer and thinker deeply interested in complexity theory, the evolution of consciousness, and the big-picture intersections of biology, physics, and philosophy. Reflecting on his intellectual development and the cultural touchstones of his youth, Azarian referenced Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, noting how popular science books from his high school graduation era framed life as an improbable statistical fluke. He also delved into foundational scientific texts, bringing up Erwin Schrödinger's influential biology book What is Life? to explain how living systems manage to evade the second law of thermodynamics. Expanding into the realms of complex systems and collective behavior, Azarian discussed Harold J. Morowitz's The Emergence of Everything to illustrate the grand trajectory of life and consciousness, and Howard Bloom's The Global Brain to explore fascinating instances where animals sacrifice themselves for the greater good of the group rather than merely propagating their own selfish genes. Additionally, he noted Deepak Chopra and Menas C. Kafatos's co-authored book You Are the Universe while discussing the production of his own audiobook.
Books Bobby Azarian recommended or discussed
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A Brief History of Time
Discussed“um so most of the popular books at that time like that was like you know i graduated high school in like 1999 and so popular books were like stephen hawking's a brief history and time”
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The Emergence of Everything
Discussed“and so he had a book called the emergence of everything which was like looking at the big picture because life is one emergence consciousness is another emergence”
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The global brain
Discussed“i guess you've had on the show a friend of mine howard bloom he has a book called the global global brain and it's all about how you know in certain instances animals will like for example sacrifice themselves uh even when it isn't you know to the benefit of propagating their genes”
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What is Life?
Discussed“and erwin schrodinger one of the founders of quantum mechanics actually wrote a very influential book on biology called what is life”
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You Are the Universe
Discussed“yeah this guy who did deepak chopra wrote a book with a physicist menace kofatos and the guy is called you are the universe and uh we got that guy and he's a pro”
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Books Bobby Azarian wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Rogan Experience #1829 - Bobby Azarian | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2022-06-09 | 5 |
Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and i argue in the book that single-celled organisms probably are not conscious”
“yeah so what i argue in the book is that basically to have a self to have an observer or an eye some sort of witness to this experience it's not good enough to just store some sort of model of the world”
“and this book takes that statement very seriously it says it's not just poetry literally the universe is coming to life not in this pan psychic view that you know kind of says the universe is already conscious i don't think that's as interesting”
“um so yeah it sounds like it when i say that there are all these different options as to why there could be this fine-tuning um but while the story i'm telling in the book is purely mechanistic so you can describe this process which i think is very spiritual and psychedelic it's um also something that you know you”
“so there is a trajectory that the book argues does argues is inevitable”
“because so one thing i talk about in the book is complexity is kind of a function of a couple of things for system to be like optimally complex it has to have a lot of parts and those parts have to be connected”
“so one thing that i talk about in the book is how basically we can look at evolutionary principles because evolution is really optimizing systems to be as robust and energy efficient and stable as possible we can look at these systems we can look at how brains work and we can try to model society after those principles”
“so that's why i call the book the romance of reality there's this intrinsic mystery”
“and and this this theory that you know i describe in the book is definitely not saying there's anything like that it's actually very important that we understand that like for this global super organism that's emerging that is human civilization you need diversity”