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Reading Notes: “The User Illusion” by Tor Nørretranders
The main idea of this wonderfully-multidisciplinary and intellectually-stimulating book on consciousness can be summarized as: Consciousness in humans is analogous to how a user interacts with the software on a computing device: a simple, unified user interface hiding an overwhelming … Continue reading
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Reading Notes: “Why Does the World Exist” by Jim Holt
Written in a fluid and readable style by a journalist and professional writer, this book can be used as an introduction to ontology, a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of existence. The organization of the book is … Continue reading
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Reading Notes: “Medical Detectives” by Berton Roueché
#YouAreWhatYouRead #BooksForJuniors Not all superheros wear capes. Some of them wear business suits (occasionally lab coats) and chase the root causes of mysterious outbreaks of diseases. They generally don’t save people’s lives on the spot (although that does happen once … Continue reading
Quick reading notes: “Radical Candor” by Kim Scott
One of my favorite quotes “You are what you read”, attributed to the famous American preacher Kenneth E. Hagin, can be misleading in making one think that reading text written on pages somehow magically changes one’s life for the better … Continue reading
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Reading Notes: “Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven” by John Eliot Gardiner
As many of my friends may know, I am a fan of classical music. Not only am I an outlier in that regard, but I also limit my playlists largely to Baroque composers, and among them, JS Bach accounting for … Continue reading
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Reading Notes: “Rigor Mortis” by Richard Harris
The title of this book, Rigor Mortis, is a play on the Latin term for the stiffness of muscles that befalls a person’s body shortly after death. It is used by the author to refer to the “death of scientific … Continue reading
Remembering Prof. Eric Young
The opening Sonatina from BWV106 “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit” Professor Eric D. Young of Johns Hopkins University, my Master’s thesis advisor, passed away in early February. It is with profound sadness that I am writing this article in … Continue reading
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Reading Notes: “Immune” by Philipp Dettmer
Book: “Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive” by Philipp Dettmer As a long-time fan of the popular science animation channel “Kurzgesagt” on YouTube, I expected its original creator, Philipp Dettmer, to be a wonderful visual … Continue reading
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Reading Notes: “A Jesuit in the Forbidden City” by R. Po-Chia Hsia
#YouAreWhatYouRead 系列 “A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci (1552-1610)” by R. Po-Chia Hsia If hard sci-fi is the closest thing we have to forward time travel, then scholarly history books are the closest thing we have to backward … Continue reading
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Reading notes: “Consciousness Explained” by Daniel Dennett
In my mind, how subjective experiences arise from inanimate physical matter is the greatest mystery facing the human intellect. It dwarfs all other tantalizing puzzles such as the origin of life and the existence of extraterrestrial life, and is matched … Continue reading
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