I was very pleasantly surprised a couple of years back that I reopened an old book which I had read or a thought I'd read about a decade ago called the beginning of infinity by David Deutsch.
Sometimes you read a book and it makes a difference right
away. Sometimes you would have book and you don't understand it. Then you read it later at the right time and it makes a difference this time when I reopen this book and I went through it much more carefully than I had in the past meticulously rather than reading it to read it and to say I was done reading it. I read it to understand the
concepts.
And the topics and stopped at every point where something was new it completely started reforming my worldview. It changed the way I think and I would credit this book as being probably the only book in the last decade except maybe a few of Nassim
taleb the works and maybe one or two other scattered books that I feel made me
smarter. They literally expanded the way that I think they expanded not just a
repertoire of my knowledge, but the repertoire of my reasoning people
throw around words like mental models a lot
and I find most mental models not
Worth reading or thinking about or listening to because I find them trivial. However, the
mental model that came out
of the beginning of infinity are transformational
because they very convincingly completely changed the
way that you look at. What is true. And what is not Karl Popper laid out the theory of what is scientific and what is not what is a good explanation? What is not and what do H
does is he expands on that
dramatically in the beginning of Infinity?
But even that is to do a
disservice the wide-ranging nature what he
Burrs in the beginning of infinity is
incredible. He goes from the theory of knowledge which goes by the fancy word epistemology all the way to quantum
mechanics and physics and Multiverse Theory to
infinity and Mathematics
to the reach of what is noble and what is not knowable
Universal explanations the theory of computation. What is beauty what systems of
politics works better how to raise your children. These are all encompassing long-range philosophical ideas.
