I just finished reading “The Life and Death of Great American Cities”. It was quite excellent, there were too much in the book for me to point out any specific parts at the moment, but I have moved on to two new books “No Country for Old Men” and “Quantum and the Lotus”. The latter is a non-fiction dialogue between a Buddhist monk and a astrophysicist discussing Buddhist philosophy and science. It is very interesting how much Buddhist thought actually fits in with quantum mechanics.
This brings to a book I read last year “Quantum Evolution”. This book was so fascinating. Its thesis is to propose a theory for the evolution of life in the universe and subsequently the evolution of conciseness and intelligent thought. It begins by defining what life is and how it has been defined throughout history from Aristotle and the beginning of the scientific method to Galileo then to Darwin and finally to quantum mechanics and modern science. It provides a fantastic history of life science. As a fan of both science and history I was completely absorbed into this book. Possibly in a future post I will get more into just what exactly quantum mechanics are. For now I will leave it at the fact that this book was totally amazing and I am very close to going to the library tomorrow to start reading the book again. I usually do not read books more than once and when I do it is because I remember very little of the last time I read the book. That is not the case here I remember so much of it that I just want to get anything I may have missed the first time out of it.
