Every book Douglas Lenat recommended on podcasts

Books Douglas Lenat recommended or discussed

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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 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 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

   AmazonListen on Audible
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   The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

   Thomas S. Kuhn · Discussed · 1 episode

   The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn is a seminal work in the philosophy of science that examines how scientific fields undergo dramatic shifts in understanding, famously coining the term paradigm shift.

   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

   AmazonListen on Audible

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