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Broad but not insightful, written like a blog post

Revisado: 12-17-19

Sautoy brings together a vast array of topics that challenge current understanding about the universe, logic/mathematics, and consciousness. Although there is a good variety of topics, none of them is explored in depth to truly understand the issue at heart.

For example, in the section about quantum mechanics, Sautou casually mentions that "non-commutativity leads to uncertainty" and does nothing to justify the statement, even though only those familiar with the uncertainty principle could make sense of what was said...which is strange since this book is presumably an introduction to such topics.

Moreover, Sautoy presents many philosophically questionable and emotionally motivated views of religion and God. Although he is not openly hostile to belief, he has a condescending view of "traditional religion" and ends the book defining God as "what we cannot know."

This would be fine, but Sautou himself states in the book why this could be problematic, but simply dismisses the objections to his idea of God as nonsensical rather than actually addressing the objections in a meaningful manner--the same problem with all the other topics in the book.

Overall, the book, although superficially interesting, is written as if it were a combination of several interrelated op-eds containing his thoughts and opinions on various topics he considers grand and deceptively labeled what we cannot know.

The book should be titled "What I as Marcus Sautoy do not know and what I think about it, and also here's my idea of God, it's pretty cool"

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A must for mental health treatment

Revisado: 03-07-19

Spark is one of the most rigorous books about exercise that there is. Much of modern medicine is focused on inactive solutions (psychiatric medications, therapy) but it turns out that exercise may simply all that we needed this entire time.

Save a few paragraphs on unsubstantiated claims about dieting, this book is a gold mine. Anyone who struggles with mental health while at the same time finds that their access to mental health professionals limited or too costly, or even those who rightly want to avoid psychedelics to treat addictions, anxiety, depression, ADD, and so on needs to read this book.

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