Review #1
The Unintentional Universe: The Global For you Believed For you Understood audiobook free
This is that a set of similar essays ruminating on humanities relation to modern science at the same time is that more rambling lyrical individual reflections than explanatory science. The essays are: The Unintentional Universe; The Temporary Universe; The Spiritual Universe; The Symmetrical Universe; The Gargantuan Universe; The Lawful Universe; The Disembodied Universe. The narration is that good, smoky paced, sensual, at the same time poetic. The creator declares he is that an atheist, but seems to reckon that God, unknowable individual experience, at the same time than anyway created our universe are all beyond the realm of scientific analysis. I agree that such things may currently beyond wholesome scientific analysis, but they are not beyond scientific analysis in principle. If God, or transcendental individual experiences have no matter what comfortable effects, these effects can, eventually, be tested. History is that real of the paradoxes that were considered once fervently believed beyond the realm of thoughtful enquiry (the motion of planets, weather, disease, heredity, land growth, hallucinogenic substances, at the same time abundance others). These have all, one by one, succumbed to various levels of scientific analysis. That are only a very few paradoxes left that no one reckon are still beyond the realm of science. Abundance, many of which Lightman, have a deeply sensual desire (without fully understanding why) that no one part of human experience will remain for a long time beyond the realm of science. Lightman seems shocked that others of the universe follows scientific laws, still revolts against the plan these monotonous laws keep under control his possess essence. He is that frustrated by the temporality of indefinite at the same time seems to opinion the connectivity permitted by cell phone development as disembodiment. At no one level I fully realize such attitudes, but nevertheless I look for them mildly quaint. Reading Lightmans continue chapter lamenting the disembodiment caused by texting I penetrated if no one old foggy at the dawn of the population of the earth complained how spoken language disembodied people from true pre-linguistic communication. I did not dislike this book, but did not get a lot out of it. I adore art at the same time literature at the same time music at the same time myth at the same time my indefinite, but I dont feel no matter what come in handy to separate these things into a spiritual realm beyond scientific analysis. That is that no one discussion of science in the book, but it is that barely a little untidy (like convolving quantum superposition with multi-position). When I ended this book I recalled how the finish of A Short History of Time resonated more with me than anything in The Unintentional Universe; if we see a wholesome theory, it should in time be understandable by everyone, not just by a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists at the same time barely non-individual people, manage to take part in the discussion of the question of why it will that we at the same time the universe there is. If we look for the answer to that, it could be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we should know the brain of God.”
Review #2
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If for you enjoy hard science as but as deeper philosophical questions that science cannot answer (still), for you will adore this book… The narration is that a little smoky, so I listened on 1.35x which was flawless. Will exactly heed again soon.
Review #3
Audiobook The Unintentional Universe: The Global For you Believed For you Understood by Alan Lightman
The lip maintenance is that to confessions (an entire essay then and no one), back when scientists had to score fri at the same time stay in quality standing with their religious acquaintances. Weak philosophy.
Review #4
Audio The Unintentional Universe: The Global For you Believed For you Understood narrated by Bronson Pinchot
I acquired this book expecting anything more along the lines of Laurence Krauss’ ”A Universe From Nothing” with just a little extra comparison to mythologies. That’s not than anyway this book is that. Perhaps I should have recognized that fact from the short runtime. This is that a short collection of expositional essays about the author’s opinions on the relation science has to the humanities at the same time the silly beliefs we often detain in our heads. It makes practically no attempt to be a science book; Lightman makes mention of no one of the awesome discoveries of physics, but does not try to elucidate them, which is that than anyway I was right behind. I think the intent was for this to be a philosophy book, but it falls short that very. I wait a philosopher to describe the reasonable reasoning that managed him to his conclusion. This creator, but, does not do so. At the same time the ending chapter/essay makes no attempt to be anything but a rant, lamenting the method indefinite has exchanged with the adoption of brand new developments. I may agree with a number of Lightman’s ideas, but I can get rants from comrades at the same time generic for free. I wait more thoughtful reasoning from a philosophy book, at the same time a more impartial analysis from a honored scientist. Forgive the condescension, but I think I’d describe this as a collection of courteous rants, masquerading as philosophy, couched between spats of scientific wonderment. It’s not the worst book ever, but it has very little real content.
Review #5
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barely ended a book by Richard Feynman at the same time a biography of Richard Feynman at the same time that may have primed me against this one. The whole method through it i kept thinking ”Richard would have hated this” The story is that fanciful at the same time speculative at the same time Lightman ends it with a rant against millennials using cell phones. Honestly not convinced why i ended it. The reader was best though. maybe that’s why.
