A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection - Softcover

Pickover, Clifford A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560259841 ISBN 13: 9781560259848

Publisher: Basic Books, 2006

Synopsis

A Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches. In his latest and greatest work, world-renowned science writer Cliff Pickover studies such colofrul characters as Truman Capote, John Cage, Stephen Wolfram, Ray Kurzweil, and Wilhelm Rontgen, and their curious ideas. Through these individuals, we can better explore life's astonishing richness and glimpse the diversity of human imagination. Part memoir and part surrealistic perspective on culture, A Beginner's Guide to Immortality gives readers a glimpse of new ways of thinking and of other worlds as he reaches across cultures and peers beyond our ordinary reality. He illuminates some of the most mysterious phenomena affecting our species. What is creativity? What are the religious implications of mosquito evolution, simulated Matrix realities, the brain's own marijuana, and the mathematics of the apocalypse? Could we be a mere software simulation living in a matrix? Who is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Emanuel Swedenborg? Did church forefathers eat psychedelic snails? How can we safely expand our minds to become more successful and reason beyond the limits of our own intuition? How can we become immortal?

About this title

Book Description:

A Profiles in Courage for the creative set: As we leave the Information Age and enter the Conceptual Age, the most important people, and certainly the most interesting, will be those who create inventions that change our ways of life and break new ground

About the Author:

Clifford A. Pickover received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is the author of thirty-six highly acclaimed books on science, mathematics, art, and religion. His web site, pickover.com, has received several million visits.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1560259841
• ISBN 13: 9781560259848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352