Notes

This page contains links to notes I have taken while reading books. Each link points to the notes for a particular book. The numbers at the beginnings of lines are page numbers in the book.

For a detailed description of how I make these notes, see this essay.

"12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", by Jordan B. Peterson
"A Different Universe", by Robert B. Laughlin
"A New Science of Life", by Rupert Sheldrake
"A Place for Consciousness", by Gregg Rosenberg
"A President Like No Other: Donald J. Trump and the Restoring of America", by Conrad Black
"A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy", by J. Bronowski
"A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Goedel and Einstein", by Palle Yourgrau
"About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution", by Paul Davies
"Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology", by Isaac Asimov
"Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand
"Basic Economics", by Thomas Sowell
"Beyond Belief", by Elaine Pagels
"Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life is the Architect of The Universe ", by James N. Gardner
"Biomedical Ethics", by Thomas A. Mappes and David Degrezia
"Caesar and Christ", by Will Durant
"Chaos", by James Gleick
"Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind", by Sir Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, M.D., and Subhash Kak, Ph. D.
"Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge", by Edward O. Wilson
"Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge", by B. Alan Wallace
"Conversations on Consciousness: What the best Minds Think About the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means To Be Human", by Susan Blackmore
"Creative Evolution", by Henri Bergson
"Critique of Pure Reason", by Immanuel Kant
"Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe", by Roger Penrose
"Deceiving the Sky", by Bill Gertz
"Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?", by Graham Allison
"Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican", by Galileo Galilei
"Engines of Creation", by K. Eric Drexler
"Explaining Consciousness - The Hard Problem", Edited by Jonathan Shear
"Fermat's Enigma", by Simon Singh
"Four Laws that Drive the Universe", by Peter Atkins
"Free Will", by Sam Harris
"Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman", by James Gleick
"Genome", by Matt Ridley
"Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam", by John Archibald Wheeler
"Green Hell", by Steve Milloy
"Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness", by B. Alan Wallace
"History of Philosophy: Selected Readings", Edited by Abernathy and Langford
"How the Mind Works", by Steven Pinker
"Ideas and Opinions", by Albert Einstein
"Imprimis A Fortieth Anniversary Collection", edited by Douglas A. Jeffray
"In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage", by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr
"Infinite in All Directions", by Freeman J. Dyson
"Insights for the Age of Aquarius", by Gina Cerminara
"Into the Heart of the Mind", by Frank Rose
"Just Six Numbers", by Martin Rees
"Knocking on Heaven's Door", by Lisa Randall
"Known and Unknown: A Memoir", by Donald Rumsfeld
"Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy", by George Gilder
"Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief", by Jordan B. Peterson
"Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge", by Morris Kline
"Meditations", by Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations on First Philosophy", by Rene Descartes
"Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False", by Thomas Nagel
"Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity", by Gregory Bateson
"My Stroke of Insight", by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
"Nature Via Nurture", by Matt Ridley
"New Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation", by John D. Barrow
"Our Knowledge of the External World", by Bertrand Russell
"Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality", by Max Tegmark
"Out of my Later Years", by Albert Einstein
"Paradigms Lost", by John L. Casti
"Parallel Worlds", by Michio Kaku
"People of the Deer", by Farley Mowat
"Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track", edited by Michelle Feynman
"Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being", by John D. Barrow
"Programming the Universe", by Seth Lloyd
"Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife", by Eben Alexander, M.D.
"Quantum Enigma", by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
"Quantum Evolution", by Johnjoe McFadden
"Radical Evolution", Joel Garreau
"Reality is not what it seems: the journey to quantum gravity", by Carlo Rovelli
"Resistance (At All Costs)", by Kimberley Strassel
"Revolution: Trump, Washington, and We the People", by KT McFarland
"Rigged", by Mollie Hemmingway
"Shadows of the Mind", by Roger Penrose
"Speculations: The Reality Club", edited by: John Brockman
"Straw Dogs", by John Gray
"Symmetry and the End of Probability", by Thinh Tran 'Dangson'
"The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy", by Peter W. Huber & Mark P. Mills
"The Case for Trump", by Victor Davis Hanson
"The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory", by David J. Chalmers
"The Cosmic Code", by Heinz Pagels
"The Creators", by Daniel J. Boorstin
"The Elegant Universe", by Brian Greene
"The Emperor's New Mind", by Roger Penrose
"The End of Science", by John Horgan
"The Equation that Couldn't be Solved", by Mario Livio
"The Fabric of the Cosmos", by Brian Greene
"The Fountainhead", by Ayn Rand
"The Greek Way to Western Civilization", by Edith Hamilton
"The History", by Herodotus, Translated by David Grene
"The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History", by J.R. McNeill & William McNeill
"The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower", by Michael Pillsbury
"The Imitation of Christ", by Thomas a Kempis
"The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth", by Patrick Grim
"The Killing of History", by Keith Windschuttle
"The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind", by Roger Penrose
"The Map of Heaven", by Eben Alexander, M.D.
"The Meaning of it All", by Richard P. Feynman
"The Mind's I", by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett
"The Nag Hammadi Library", edited by James M. Robinson
"The Nature of Space and Time", by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose
"The New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble", by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin
"The Order of Time", by Carlo Rovelli
"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", by Julian Jaynes
"The Origins and History of Consciousness", by Erich Neumann
"The Plot Against the President", by Lee Smith
"The Pleasures of Philosophy", by Will Durant
"The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone", by Kenneth W. Ford
"The Reagan Diaries", by Ronald Reagan
"The Response to Industrialism 1885-1914", by Samuel P. Hays
"The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe", by Roger Penrose
"The Seat of the Soul", by Gary Zukav
"The Second Creation", by Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann
"The Seekers", by Daniel J. Boorstin
"The Sense of Being Stared At", by Rupert Sheldrake
"The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions", by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", by Thomas Kuhn
"The Tangled Wing", by Melvin Konner
"The Tao of Phyiscs", by Fritjof Capra
"The Tempting of America", by Robert Bork
"The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture", by Fritjof Capra
"The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality", by H.H. The Dalai Lama
"The Universe Within: A New Science Explores the Human Mind", by Morton Hunt
"The Unknown Spirit", by Jean Charon
"The User Illusion", by Tor Norretranders
"The World As I See It", by Albert Einstein
"The World of Physics", Edited by Arthur Beiser
"Three Roads to Quantum Gravity", by Lee Smolin
"Three Who Made a Revolution", by Bertram D. Wolfe
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus", by Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism", by Charles Hill
"Unfreedom of the Press", by Mark R. Levin
"What is Life? with Mind and Matter & Autobiographical Sketches", by Erwin Schroedinger
"What Mad Pursuit", by Francis Crick
"Woke, Inc.", by Vivek Ramaswamy
"World Order", by Henry Kissinger

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