Every book Risto Miikkulainen recommended on podcasts

Books Risto Miikkulainen 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

   “so like 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 and there's folks psychologists cognitive scientists that work on terror management theory and they think that one of the special things about humans is that we're able to sort of foresee our death”

   Lex Fridman Podcast #177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation 2021-04-19 Listen at 10:08

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible
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   Wonderful Life the Burgess

   Stephen Jay Gould · Discussed · 1 episode

   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”

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

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible

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