Every book Douglas Lenat recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Douglas Lenat

Who said what is determined automatically. In hand-checked samples, at least 6% of mentions were credited to the wrong speaker — sometimes an interviewer’s line recorded as the guest’s, sometimes the reverse. Every entry below quotes the words and links to the episode, so you can check it.

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   The Denial of Death

   Ernest Becker · Discussed · 1 episode

   The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical exploration arguing that human civilization and individual behavior are fundamentally driven by an underlying terror of mortality.

   Discussed

   “there's a bunch of philosophers like Ernest Becker who kind of think that this realization of mortality and then fear sometimes they call it Terror of of of mortality is one of the creative forces behind Human Condition”

   Lex Fridman Podcast #221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasonin… 2021-09-15 Listen at 2:31:21

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible
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   The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

   Thomas S. Kuhn · Discussed · 1 episode

   Thomas S.

   Discussed

   “so there all sorts of things where um humans are locked into paradigms what Thomas cun called paradigms and we can't get out of them very easily”

   Lex Fridman Podcast #221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasonin… 2021-09-15 Listen at 2:43:59

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible

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