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Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars
- The Panspermia Revolution and the Origins of Humanity
- De: Chandra Wickramasinghe PhD, Kamala Wickramasinghe, Gensuke Tokoro
- Narrado por: Paul Harrington
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Revealing how panspermia offers answers to some of humanity’s longstanding questions about the origins of life, the authors discuss the impact this shift in understanding will have on our relationship with the Earth and on culture, history, and religion. And perhaps the most dramatic ramification of all is that acceptance of panspermia means acceptance that Earth is not unique - that other life-filled planets exist and intelligent life is common in the Universe. Not only did we come from space, but we are not alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most plausible idea on where we came from
- De Issac en 12-27-21
- Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars
- The Panspermia Revolution and the Origins of Humanity
- De: Chandra Wickramasinghe PhD, Kamala Wickramasinghe, Gensuke Tokoro
- Narrado por: Paul Harrington
The most plausible idea on where we came from
Revisado: 12-27-21
The hypothesis of cosmic origins appears to be the best available for explaining how we came about. This book does an admirable job of describing and providing evidence for this hypothesis.
I liked the recounting of how various important historical events such as the introduction of agriculture coincide with cosmic impacts.
I disliked the socialist yearnings.
The narrator’s voice was pleasant, though I found his pronunciation of “nuclear” a bit jarring.
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Win Bigly
- Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
- De: Scott Adams
- Narrado por: Scott Adams
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,869
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,559
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,543
Scott Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict Donald Trump’s election. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a lucky clown, but Adams - best known as “the guy who created Dilbert” - recognized a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation. We’re hardwired to respond to emotion, not reason, and Trump knew exactly which emotional buttons to push. The point isn’t whether Trump was right or wrong, good or bad. Adams goes beyond politics to look at persuasion tools that can work in any setting - the same ones Adams saw in Steve Jobs.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Save your credit
- De David J Campbell en 04-12-20
- Win Bigly
- Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
- De: Scott Adams
- Narrado por: Scott Adams
Mostly persuasive
Revisado: 12-05-20
I enjoyed seeing how recent events were interpreted and often predicted by a trained persuader and hypnotist.
On the other hand, the weakest aspect was how Scott Adams didn’t address the apparently self-defeating nature of some of the ideas. For example, the idea that facts don’t matter seems incoherent. Suppose we take that idea as true and relevant. Then it is a fact and therefore it doesn’t matter. So we may as well ignore it. I take that to mean that some facts do matter, and that raises the question of which ones. Adams does not try to answer that question directly as far as I can tell.
Another intriguing but apparently also incoherent notion presented in an appendix is that our reality is a simulation. If that is true, it’s ultimately running on some sort of very powerful computer in the actual reality. But then we are in an aspect of that reality. Otherwise, we would have to assume simulations all the way down.
Adams uses the simulation idea to explain surprising synchronicities, but I figure those are better explained by Rupert Sheldrake’s concept of morphic resonance in the context of a non-simulated reality.
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