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Bertrand Arthur William Russell,18 May 1872–2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist. In the early 20th century, Russell led the British "revolt against idealism".He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, colleague G. E. Moore, and his prot�g� Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians.With A. N. Whitehead he wrote Principia Mathematica, an attempt to create a logical basis for mathematics. His work has had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and philosophy, especially the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a celebrated writer and commentator on social and political affairs.

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Astonishingly ahead of its time, a Crystal Ball of the Future
By Pork Chop
The Impact of Science on Society, by Sir Bertrand Russell - a Nobel
Prize in Literature, and son of Viscount Amberley, and grandson of
the Duke of Bedford, who was Prime Minister for Queen Victoria - is
a work astonishingly ahead of its time, for its 1952 publishing
date. The most important is the so-called Lloyd Roberts Lecture,
given at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, on Nov 29, 1949,
included as the last chapter. overall book.

This work should be required reading in education programs
world-wide, as it crystalizes from a philosophical and rational
point of view, world events from the past several hundred years, in
view of better understanding today's world, and what is to follow
suit next.

Who better than Russell, demonstrating a very advanced ability in
mental gymnastics, digesting entire libraries of literature in that
process and laying out his analysis of the World, and Man's place in
it, and the Future, in 140 pages? This is done entertainingly,
fluidly for readers, with a personal touch.

This work should be purchased and studied by all, because of the
conclusions adopted by the elite of the world, of which the author
and his audience were members.

Everyone should understand that there is an urgency among the elite
to create a One-World government, for various reasons. First, this
is needed to contain nationalist and imperialist urges in various
regions of the world by having a One-World Military.

Secondly, the single government is required to curtail population
growth, in face of limited agricultural production and resources.
The author warns that if the West cannot achieve this in India,
China, Russia, the free world will be overrun militarily,
economically by those populations in the UK, USA and Europe from an
over-populated Asia. I should note that Mao Tse Tung created a
famine, in China, resulting in as many as 38 million (yes, 38!)
casualties from starvation, in the 20 years following the
publication of this book.

Thirdly, raw materials (oil, copper, tin, uranium, etc.) will need
to be rationed and controlled by a One-World government, as they are
finite in quantity. In the past 5 years, oil has risen in multiples
to over $100 per barrel, copper and resources have risen and
mega-acquisitions from Asian and Russian government owned companies
of Canadian and US producers, commonplace.

Fourth, with Darwin on his side, and Malthus, Russell clarifies that
the One World Government, will use scientific methods to cut down
the population, to be carried out explicitly or behind the scenes,
(if birth control is rejected for religious reasons), such as new
twists on the Black Plague (Avian Flu, perhaps?), or contrived world
conflicts r intentional waves of starvation on a global scale,
(pp.129). Unchecked, population numbers destablize a science-based,
prosperous and every-increasing good quality of life. Conversely,
hungry citizens can cause recessions by only buying scarce and
expensive food items, withholding consumption of other items from
their discretionary income, pulling down the economy.

Next, Russell warns against a USA that is export-only based, since
it impoverishes the World. We've seen, accordingly, that the USA has
shown astonishingly high import/export account deficits for the past
30 years, and the manufacturing sector is practically gone
domestically, as the majority of products consumed in USA are now
imported, distributing the wealth globally, as Russell recommends.

As well, taming of natural urges and self-determination is necessary
among school children on a massive scale (Ritalin ?), and violent
nationalist propaganda banned in all schools. Russel also opposes
fanatical creeds being shown to citizens (the Middle East ?)

Russel underlines that either citizens submit to international
authority (so-called Reason) or they will perish and die (pp.96.)

As well, Russell believes that 95% of males and 70% of females are
liekly to be sterilized, so that the elite can use "scientific
breeding" (pp.66) mainly among the totalitarian governments who will
misuse a science for their own purposes, mainly imperialistic.

With non-elected governments, Russell suggests that scentific
societies will impose a special diet and injections into the body of
babies and children under 10 to shape their characters into the
desired citizens that are needed. Through special preparing,
rewarding, and manipulating psychological makeups of humans (through
mental conditioning in schools) critiques of authority, or of those
in power will be impossible, as will be non-desirable thoughts and
behaviors.

In sum, the author must be congratulated for holding back little if
nothing at all to readers, and for giving them his sincere personal
conclusions with a litany of explanations on how those were arrived
at.

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UNDER THE THUMB OF THE ONE WORLD GUV ALL RIGHT
By PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Bertrand Russell's book is a riveting, must-read. It is a very short book that can be read in two sittings, consisting of only three chapters based on three lectures given at Columbia University back in 1950. The descriptive and elucidatory language used in these pages for each chapter is stunningly clear, well-paced, and beautiful, and because the esthetic value of the writing is so high and palpable, it comes as all the more shocking for the unsuspecting reader to learn that the author is no friend of the common man, no friend of liberty, no proponent of individualism (he declares in Chapter Two that the "sturdy yeoman," honest and brave, fighting against the "urban adventurers" who want to rip him off, is a myth) while he is wholeheartedly invested in the rise of a one world order, one world government, and a scientific dictatorship run by "the governing class."

The first chapter is entitled "Science and Tradition." Here, Russell covers the territory of science versus superstition and religion traditions, delineating clearly that science has definitely outbested the latter in observation, in contradistinction to (mere and religious) authority. Science has also outbested religious tradition or superstition in regard to setting forth the autonomy of the real world and having dethroned any sense of "purpose" in the world other than that which goes by the name "efficacious cause." These ideas can be found in any learned author's discussion of modernity and science and are not new. However, Russell wants to add: "[T]herefore admit that men are not all congenitally equal and that evolution proceeds by selecting favorable variations," mentioning meanwhile that the very idea that men are not equal in congenital endowment "becomes dangerous when some group is singled out as superior or as inferior." Some group? Which group? Bertrand Russell will let you know, but then he won't admit the danger any more. Finally, Russell blows a shivering hint that war and science are blighted or fated incestuous twins.

Chapter or Lecture Two is entitled "Effects of Scientific Technique." This is the section that contains the most striking and the most incendiary statements I've yet come across. Reading this section was for me what I imagine reading "Mein Kempf" must have been in the 1930s for readers who didn't know how shocking Hitler's assertions could be when he was alive. If all one has time for is time for one chapter, this is the chapter to read.

Russell starts out, almost like a novelist, laying out the destructive aspects of science. He admits the Industrial Revolution didn't work out very well for "the average happiness" of people both in England and in America, stating the quality of life was "lower than it had been a hundred years earlier." (Curiously, he contradicts himself later stating that only with the rise of industrialism would a peasant not go hungry and not until the rise of industrialism would most of his children not die. How is this state of affairs better than the industrialism that brought "unspeakable misery"?) To further the reader's awareness of the destructive aspects of science, Russell also mentions how agent provocateurs were used, in England at least, to get wage earners denounced and hanged. Here Russell is hinting at the science of persuasion and the technique of getting people to "cooperate." The cotton gin intensified slavery and its cruelty in the United States. The telegraph did much, Russell asserts, to eliminate jobs and increase central control such that, over time, fewer and few men had more and more executive power in governments than was the case formerly. Power stations and airplanes both promoted the growth of government. All of these facts lead Russell to one conclusion: "There will be now no technical difficulty about a single-world empire. Since war is likely to become more destructive of human life [through science and increase in the power of the few] . . . unification under a single government is probably necessary. . . ."

Russell comes right out and states: "We now know that limelight and a brass band do more to persuade people than can be done by the most elegant train of syllogisms. . . . This subject [persuasion] will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship." He goes even further: "Although this science of mass psychology will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated." He writes that he admits he knows that this increase of organization with a ruling class at the top can spawn a tyranny by officials, can establish a lawless police force, and will necessarily curb your freedom, but liberty, both national and individual, will have to be "effectively restrained" -- or else mankind may not survive -- and a means must be found to make men and nations submit to the rule of law.

On the bright side, at least for this middle chapter, the one positive note science brings to the table for mankind is that science makes (certain) men richer.

The third and last chapter is called "Effects of Scientific Technique," and here Russell mentions other positive aspects of science on mankind, like medicine, nutrition and education. However, he doesn't define education well and medicine and nutrition are discussed to make the reader feel warm and fuzzy about mankind's progress through time using science. However, anyone knows that what vaccines were in the Fifties are a hell of a lot different today and what passed for food back in the Fifties no longer resembles today the modern dining table offerings. Russell even goes so far as to assert that "Science can abolish poverty and excessive hours of labor." Has anyone seen science do this? We do know, however, as Russell admits, that agriculture introduced slavery, human sacrifice and large wars into the individual's way of life and raised the standard of living only for a "tiny governing minority."

So, what's the point? The point is "Everything turns on politics" and all aspects of society, including agriculture, "are in the power of vast financial interests that are concerned in manipulating political issues." Thus, "Matters should be arranged so that large groups seldom think it is in their interest to strike." Only the governing aristocracy shall have economic advantage and there must be a world government with a "monopoly of all serious weapons of war [created by science], for nothing else will make peace secure."

To further his warm and fuzzy approach about the coming scientific dictatorship. Russell adds that he loves humanity and it his actual love for humanity that he advocates this scientific dictatorship. This aristocratic, self-interested atheist then actually intones "love, Christian love, or compassion" as a means toward happiness, adding that nationalism or its propaganda will be outlawed in the future in all forms and school children will be "taught" [propagandized] to not "hate and despise foreign nations," although if nationalism is a verboten construction, I don't know how the word "nation" could even arise in that classroom of the future.

This book was the most heinous reading material I've encountered yet on the subject of the New World Order yet it is so prescient about the global governance now occurring in the early 21st century that, even though what's being presented is as horrific as watching Hitler himself eliminate whole groups or populations, you can't avert your eyes. The unpleasant facts are right here, right in front of you -- coming at you all the way from 1951 and 1952 -- and revealed in elegant prose.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Traitor Mathmatician Helps Enslave Mankind
By Brian
Five stars because everybody needs to be familiar with the disturbing contents of the book, NOT because I support the content.

Bertrand Russell was a gifted mathematician and logician of the late 1800's and early 1900's. His "Principa Mathematica" paper developing formal systems in mathematics continues to be cited today 100 years after its publication (although it has since been proven to be an incomplete theorum). There. Let it never be said I didn't give him his due.
Sadly, he goes off the rails at that point. Instead of living an honorable life contributing to society by developing his mathematical theories, Russell instead elected for riches and accolades under the aegis of eugenicist robberbarons J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller (among others). At their behest, Russell turned from math and logic to advance degenerate philosophies and social engineering schemes. Chief among these were his contributions to the ongoing Morgan/Rockefeller plan to unify the world into a hegemonic totalitarian oligarchy. Where Napolean and others failed, Rockefeller intended to succeed using the new sciences of psychology (propaganda), genetics (eugenics), and emerging engineering fields. Russell calls this the "scientific dictatorship" (p.32)

The Impact of Science on Society is broken into three speeches Bertrand Russell gave at Columbia University in the early days of the Cold War. These lectures sell his scientific dictatorship as the only reasonable (!!) alternative to certain worldwide nuclear catastrophy. In these speeches, he brazenly details (in glowing, enthusiastic terms) just a few programs this new world order is cooking up for us, including:

1) Mass indoctrination (p.32), which he brags will be capable of "producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black", if that is what rulers wish the public to think. To achieve this, he advocates development of psychology as a tool for controlling masses, noting (p.31): "This study is immensely useful to practical men, whether they wish to become rich or to acquire the government."

2) War against the family: (p.32) "the influence of the home is destructive". After all, Russell opines, to be effective, "not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten".

3) ...And a host of grusome suggestions to achieve global mass depopulation.

Rockefellers and their ilk continue to wield untold influence through their ownership or dominance of the member banks of the Federal Reserve, the "seven sisters" oil cabal, many universities, and a constellation of tax-free foundations and policy-influencing "think tanks", including the Council on Foreign Relations. Close examination of these institutions reveals a concerted and unified effort towards developing a "vertically integrated" world political/economic system -essentially the scientific dictatorship Russell advocates in this book. The players pushing us down this road include: the European Union, NAFTA, CAFTA, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Court, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations and its subsidiary organizations. There is little to suggest these banking Elites have wavered from the vision outlined in this book.

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*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
"Vivid... impressive... splendidly informative."—The�New York Times
"Suceeds spectacularly."�—�Science
"A tour de force." — Salon.com

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. �Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void?�Does human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview?

In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level--and then how each connects to the other. �Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique. �

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.

• Sales Rank: #4188 in Books
• Published on: 2016-05-10
• Released on: 2016-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.31" h x 1.38" w x 6.31" l, 1.27 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

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"Weaving the threads of astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and philosophy into a seamless narrative tapestry, Sean Carroll enthralls us with what we’ve figured out in the universe and humbles us with what we don’t yet understand. �Yet in the end, it’s the meaning of it all that feeds your soul of curiosity."
—Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of�Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

“With profound intelligence and lucid, unpretentious language, Sean Carroll beautifully articulates the world view suggested by contemporary naturalism.��Thorny issues like free will, the direction of time, and the source of morality are clarified with elegance and insight.��The Big Picture�shows how the scientific worldview enriches our understanding of the universe and ourselves. A reliable account of our knowledge of the universe, it is also a serene meditation on our need for meaning.��This is a book that should be read by everybody.”
—Carlo Rovelli, author of�Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

"Vivid... Impressive... Splendidly informative..."
—The�New York Times Book Review

“Never hectoring, always tolerant, the author presents a seductively attractive picture of a universe whose ultimate laws lie within our grasp… [Carroll] gives us a highly enjoyable and lucid tour through a wide range of topics… even if you don’t agree with what he says, you are unlikely to be enraged by such an urbane and engaging lecturer; more likely, you will be enthralled.”
–Wall Street Journal

“A nuanced inquiry into ‘how our desire to matter fits in with the nature of reality at its deepest levels,’ in which Carroll offers an assuring dose of what he calls ‘existential therapy’ reconciling the various and often seemingly contradictory dimensions of our experience.”
–Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“[The Big Picture�is] a�tour de force�that offers a comprehensive snapshot of the human situation in our infinitely strange universe, and it does this with highly accessible language and engaging storytelling.”�
—Salon.com

“Sean Carroll’s holistic vision accommodates the sciences and the humanities and has a high probability of provoking readers into clarifying their own views about the complex relations among science, religion and morality.”�
—The Times Literary Supplement�

“Carroll is the perfect guide on this wondrous journey of discovery. A brilliantly lucid exposition of profound philosophical and scientific issues in a language accessible to lay readers.”�
—Kirkus, starred review

"Carroll presents a means through which people can better understand themselves, their universe, and their conceptions of a meaningful life."
—Publishers Weekly

“Guides us through several centuries’ worth of scientific discoveries to show how they have shaped our understanding and indeed how the laws of nature are linked to the most fundamental human questions of life, death, and our place in the cosmos.”
—Library Journal. Prepub Alert

"intensely insightful"
—Scientific American

“[Carroll] sets out to show how various phenomena, including thought, choice, consciousness, and value, hang together with the scientific account of reality that has been developed in physics in the past 100 years. He attempts to do all this without relying on specialized jargon from philosophy and physics and succeeds spectacularly in achieving both aims.”�
—Science

“True to the grand scope of its title...anyone who enjoys asking big questions will find a lot to consider.”�
—Booklist

“Language philosophy, quantum mechanics, general relativity—they’re all in The Big Picture. Sean Carroll is a fantastically erudite and entertaining writer.”
—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Pulitzer Prize winner�The Sixth Extinction
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“From the Big Bang to the meaning of human existence, The Big Picture is exactly that— a magisterial, yet deeply fascinating,�grand tour through the issues that really matter.��Blending�science and philosophy, Sean Carroll gives us a humane perspective on the universe and our place in it.� As gripping as it is important, The Big Picture can change the way you think about the world.”
—Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish

“In this timely exploration of the universe and its mysteries—both physical and metaphysical—Sean Carroll illuminates the world around us with clarity, beauty and, ultimately, with much needed wisdom.”
—Deborah Blum, director, Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, author of The Poisoner’s Handbook
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“Sean Carroll is a leading theoretical cosmologist with the added ability to write about his subject with unusual
clarity, flare, and wit.”�
—Alan Lightman, author of The Accidental Universe and Einstein’s Dreams
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"Until now you might have gotten away believing modern physics is about things either too small or too far away to care much about. But no more. Sean Carroll’s new book reveals how physicists’ quest to better understand the fundamental laws of nature has lead to astonishing insights into life, the universe, and everything.�Above all, a courageous book, and an overdue one."
—Sabine Hossenfelder, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

"Instead of feeling humbled and insignificant when gazing upward on a clear starry night, Carroll takes us by the hand and shows us how fantastic the inanimate physical Universe is and how special each animate human can be.� It is lucid, spirited, and penetrating."
—Michael Gazzaniga, author of Who's in Charge? and Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

About the Author
SEAN CARROLL is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in 1993 from Harvard University. Recently, Carroll has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the arrow of time, and the emergence of complexity. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Sloan Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the Royal Society of London. His most recent award, in 2014, was from the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Carroll has appeared on The Colbert Report (twice), PBS’s NOVA, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and he frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television. He has been interviewed by various NPR shows, Scientific American, Wired, and The New York Times. He has given a TED talk on the multiverse that has more than one million views, and he has participated in a number of well-attended public debates concerning material in his new book, including one in New York City in 2014 with Eben Alexander.

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146 of 154 people found the following review helpful.
Reality is a many-splendored thing
By Ash Jogalekar
Sean Carroll is a successful theoretical physicist, skilled ponderer of philosophical questions and gifted communicator of science. He brings all these qualities to bear in his big-hearted, ambitious latest book “The Big Picture.” The book is part sweeping survey of some of the most thought-provoking ideas in modern science, part sweeping rumination on two of the most fundamental questions that we can ask: How do we gain knowledge of the world? And how do we distill meaning from an impersonal, purely physical universe?

The book can roughly be divided into two parts. The first part can be titled “How do we know” and the second can be titled “What do we know”. The siren song weaving its way through Carroll’s narrative is called poetic naturalism. Poetic naturalism simply means that there are many ways to talk about reality, and all of them are valid as long as they are rooted in naturalism and consistent with one another. This is the central message of the book: we make up explanations about the world and we call these explanations “stories” or “models” or “ideas”, and all of them are valid in their own ways.

The first part of the book explores some of the central concepts in the philosophy of science that make up poetic naturalism. Carroll starts from Aristotle and the ancient Greeks and progresses through the Arabs. He explores the investigations of Galileo in the seventeenth century. It was Galileo and his intellectual successor Isaac Newton who showed that the world operates according to self-sufficient physical laws that don’t necessarily require external causes. One of the most important concepts explored in the book is Bayesian thinking, in which one assigns probabilities to phenomena based on one’s previous understanding of the world and then updates this understanding (or “priors”) according to new evidence. Bayesian thinking is a powerful tool for distinguishing valid science from invalid science, and for distinguishing science from nonsense: one could in fact argue that all human belief systems operate (or should operate) according to Bayesian criteria. Bayesianism does introduce an element of subjectivity in the scientific process, but as Carroll demonstrates, this supposed bias has not harmed our investigations of natural phenomena and has allowed us to come up with accurate explanations.

Another thread weaving its way through the book is that of emergence and domains of applicability. Emergence means the existence of properties that are not strictly reducible to their constituent parts. Although Carroll is a physicist and holds fundamental physics in high regard, he appreciates that chemistry has its own language and neuroscience has its own language, and these languages are as fundamental to their disciplines as photons and electrons are to physics. No field of inquiry is thus truly fundamental in an all-encompassing sense, since there are always emergent phenomena that offer stories and explanations in their own right. Emergence also manifests itself in the form of what are called effective theories in physics; these are theories in which the macroscopic behavior of a system does not depend in a unique way on a detailed microscopic description: for instance a container of air can be perfectly described by properties like its average temperature and pressure without resorting to descriptions of quarks and Higgs bosons. As long as the two domains are consistent with each other (what Carroll calls “planets of belief”) we are on firm ground.

These ideas lay the foundation for the second half of the book which takes us on a sweeping sojourn through many of the key ideas of modern science. Carroll says that the most important description of the world comes from what’s called the ‘Core Theory’. This theory ties together the fundamental forces of nature and particles like the Higgs boson; it is grounded in general relativity and quantum mechanics. It can explain the entire physical universe, from atoms to the Big Bang, certainly in principle but often in practice. If there's any one hard scientific lesson to take away from the book, it's that the universe is made up of quantum fields. Later chapters deal with topics like evolution in real time, photosynthesis and metabolism, leading theories for the origins of life, thermodynamics and networks in the brain. When Carroll talks about entropy, complexity and the arrow of time he’s in his element; one important aspect of complexity which I had not quite appreciated is that complexity can actually result from an increase, not decrease, of entropy and disorder if guided the right way.

The book also dwells in detail upon Rene Descartes since his ideas of dualism and pure thought seem to pose challenge to poetic naturalism, but as Carroll demonstrates, these challenges are illusory since both the mind and the body can be shown to operate based on well known physical principles. These ideas keep appearing in the later parts of the book in which Carroll deals with many thought experiments in philosophy and neuroscience that purport to ask questions about reality and consciousness. Some experiments involve zombies, others involve aliens simulating us; all are entertaining. A big question is subjective experience (or “qualia”) which is sometimes regarded as some kind of impenetrable domain that’s divorced from objective laws of nature. For the most part Carroll convincingly shows us that the same laws of nature that give rise to the motion of the planets also give rise to one’s perception of the color red, for instance. This section of the book involving famous conundrums like John Searle’s Chinese Room and ‘Mary the Color Scientist’ is fascinating and highly thought-provoking, and while the thought experiments have no clear resolution, Carroll’s point is that none of them violate the basic naturalistic structure of the universe and demand mysterious explanations. His discussion of consciousness is also very stimulating; he thinks that consciousness is not really a thing per se but an emergent property of organized matter. More succinctly, it’s a useful invention, a description of a particular way in which matter behaves rather than something that is beyond our current understanding of natural law; it is what we say rather than what is. Much of Carroll’s discussion here reminds me, as cheesy as it sounds, of a line from ‘The Matrix’: words like love, care and purpose are mere descriptions borne of language - what matters are the connections they imply.

The book ends by taking us on a tour of some of the most important philosophical questions that human beings have asked themselves; questions of meaning, purpose, emotion and free will. Personally I found this section a bit rambling but I cannot really blame Carroll for this: none of these questions have a definitive answer and all are subject to speculation. On the other hand, this little tour provides non-specialists with an introduction to well-known philosophers and philosophies, including constructivism, deontology and utilitarianism. The big question here is how meaning can arise from the impersonal natural laws that have been described so far. Neither Carroll nor anyone else knows the answer, and the book simply makes the case that all these qualities are emergent properties that are all consistent with poetic naturalism. You may or may not be satisfied by this answer, but it certainly provides food for thought.

In a book as ambitious as this one there’s bound to be some disagreement, and that’s a good thing. Here are some questions I had: Generally speaking Carroll is on more firm ground when talking about science rather than philosophy. Quite oddly at one point, he uses poetic naturalism to argue against opposition to gay marriage and LGBT rights. While his support for these issues is one I heartily share, I am not sure poetic naturalism is the best or the most persuasive reason to uphold these causes: we should support them not because of but in spite of naturalistic reasons. Also, Carroll who is a self-professed naturalist spends several paragraphs describing how all of the arguments for a supernatural God violate naturalism. However I think religion has a purpose beyond describing the real world, and ironically this purpose lends itself to the same analysis that Carroll does of human qualities like care and love. I would think that based on much of the book’s narrative, religion would be described as an emergent phenomenon that provides people with a set of stories and descriptions; these stories provide succor and and a sense of community. Are these stories real? They may not be, and they are certainly not grounded in natural law, but Carroll himself says at one point that models of the world should be used because they are useful, not because they claim to be real. Shouldn’t one say the same thing about the positive and personal aspects of religion?

However, none of these concerns should detract from the sweeping scientific and philosophical journey the book takes us on. Carroll is an engaging, sympathetic and pleasant guide to the big picture, irrespective of whether you agree with him completely or not. Ranging over some of the most pressing questions that humanity has unearthed and continues to unearth, the one clear message in the book is an unambiguous one: we will always keep on searching, and this search will continue to propel humanity past unexpected and exciting horizons. More than anything else the discussion drives home the grandeur of the universe and the human mind, and this is grandeur we should all revel in. Perhaps this bit of wisdom from Carroll’s chapter on entropy where he is describing complexity in a cup of coffee sums it up best: “Those swirls in the cream mixing in the coffee? That’s us. Ephemeral patterns of complexity, riding a wave of increasing entropy from simple beginnings to a simple end. We should enjoy the ride.”

67 of 72 people found the following review helpful.
" I opened my Audible library and it was better than Christmas
By serine
After having a countdown for this book, which spanned months, I woke up at 5 am on May 10th and thought, "It's finally here!" I opened my Audible library and it was better than Christmas. In the quiet of the morning, I began to listen to this deeply philosophical book and immediately fell in love with it. It felt like a Poetic Naturalist's version of Christmas- material gifts replaced by the gift of trying to understand the nature of our vast universe and the world in which we live.

Those who have wanted to read Sean Carroll but didn't want to wade through the science will be happy with this book. In the spirit of Alexander von Humboldt, Carroll tucks much of the complex science away in an appendix for those who would like more detail. But, that doesn't mean this book is light on the science. To the contrary, Carroll, as usual, takes some of the most complex issues science has to offer, and packages them in a form that even people with little or no scientific background can understand. In fact, this book in particular is aimed at those who might have little education in the sciences and and even less education about heuristics. It welcomes everyone to join in a thoughtful conversation about understanding what we know about our world and the wider universe. Does it have a purpose? Does its design imply any type of creator? Instead of insulting those who say that it does (I am guilty of this myself), Carroll provided a real way to put our beliefs to the test. He was very willing to consider the views of those who believe in God and provide a detailed method, which is both kind and built on logic, that can help us figure out whether a belief is true.

If the preceding paragraph suggests to you that those with extensive education in the sciences (including cognitive science) will be bored or find nothing new, then I have represented the book poorly. Even people whose undergrad and grad career consisted of many of the following courses will find new ways of thinking about that information and connecting it to the Big Picture.

Samples of related course material:

Intro to Cognitive Science (including Kahneman's heuristics)
Cognitive Neuroscience
Biochem (including chemiosmosis)
Evolution (including environmental modification of genes)
Origin of life research (including Martin, Russell, and Lane's work on bioenergetics and others working on RNA world)
Philosophy of Mind

Carroll opened the door for *everyone* to think about and discuss what evidence we would need for any belief to be validated. Instead of dismissing ideas of belief outright, Carroll employs a very gentle, yet fiercely logical style of problem solving. The result was powerful and reminded me of the deep humility and unfailing logic with which Darwin wrote his many books, including his autobiography.

Prior to this book, if anyone had asked me if I wanted to read yet another book on creationism vs. science or the hard problem of consciousness (involving Chalmers unrealistic and pseudoscientific zombies), the answer would have been a resounding, "NO!" I feel as if too much of my thinking time has been wasted by these concepts that serve only to anchor our progress. I want to push past all of that. I want to never again allow that type of scientific sabotage to ruin the progress I might make in understanding the universe in a real and more complete way than my current view allows. Often reading about the efforts of those who wage war on evidence based knowledge leaves me frustrated, often wishing I could get that time back. That was not the case with this book. The whole time, even though I was reading things I thought I was tired of reading, my neurons were flooding my brain with wonderful dopamine bursts. Reflexive "Wows" kept reverberating from my brain. The book fits into the category "MINDGASM!"

In a book, which includes such topics as:

how we know what we know
the forces that govern the universe
properties of elements in relation to other elements
quantum mechanics
emergence and complexity
how we gather and evaluate scientific evidence

Carroll, in his usual relatable fashion, seamlessly included discussions about today's relevant issues in society such as transgender rights, marriage equality. I recall reading E.O. Wilson's book Social Conquest Of Earth and feeling somewhat confused about the organization of the book. He kept social issues separate throughout the book and then bombarded the reader with a litany of important social issues. I love both Wilson and his book, but the social issues didn't fit and felt as if they should be in another book. Carroll's humorous (yet serious) approach when discussing such issues makes me feel as if I am reading a 20 something university student with his finger on the pulse of the upcoming generations, while at other times, when he is discussing concepts that take a long time to learn, I feel as if I am reading a book written by a scientifically minded Zarathustra. In a crazy way, this writing style really works.

Parts One, Two, and Three (the first half of the book) were basically an excellent summary of and entire 4 year experience as a major in Cognitive Science. After introducing such concepts as understanding cause and effect, understanding how things move and how momentum is conserved, and understanding how we come to adopt our belief systems, Carroll examined the many heuristics we employ when trying to understand how we know what we know. To figure this out, he introduced a sort of "best of" collection of thinkers. Marrying Cog Sci 101 (with a strong emphasis on Baysian reasoning) with Epistemology and Philosophy 101, he tried to understand what thinkers such as Descartes and Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, and Kahneman thought about the nature of reality. The main questions scholars have been asking are, "How can I know what I know? How can I know what exists? How can I know if my beliefs reflect reality?" A take home point from Section Two is that people are all entitled to have their own prior beliefs. However, they are not entitled to have their own likelihood. There is an objective likelihood to be discovered, and it takes solid reasoning, and not tightly held belief, to make that discovery. **** see note at end.

While discussing heuristics, Carroll gave a shout out to one of my favorite books -- Mistakes Were Made, but Not by Me. I love that book and am often disappointed that not too many people I have talked to seem to appreciate it in the way I do. I love that it got the recognition it deserved. Many books like it are sort of self-help oriented and veer too far from the science. Many authors fail to question if they are using the very heuristics they are writing about. Still others fail to question the methods to the studies they choose to include, brining down the overall quality of the book. But, Tavris and Aronson did much better than most avoiding these pitfalls. They deserved some recognition, not from the self-help crowd, but rather from a scientists who is celebrated for his keen logic.

In Part 4, Carroll related a humorous story about ending up on a plane, seated next to origin of life researcher Mike Russel. That was a great lead in to explaining Darwinian evolution, cellular formation, emergence, complexity (his complexity research sounds great! I am definitely going to read everything I can get my hand on concerning that), and ATP synthase (my very favorite protein channel!). If you are a bit fuzzy about what Free Energy is, this section will clear that up and relate it to exactly how your very own body works. (What a delicious section. I was too excited to see what came next. So I did not stop to listen again or take notes on this section. As soon as I am done writing this review, I am going to listen to this entire section again.)

Theodosius Dobzhansky said, “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”. Thanks to scientists such as Sean Carroll, Mike Russell, Jeremy England, and others bridging the gap between living and non living systems, it will soon be said that Nothing in Biology or the larger universe Makes Sense Except in the Light of Thermodynamics. If you want the best possible summary of how thermodynamics fits into the story of living systems (including how those systems likely came into being and how they evolved), then you will love this section.

In Part Five, Carroll took on the philosophy of mind debate. You may have taken courses or read extensively about The Chinese Room, Mary, What it's Like to Be a Bat, Eliminative Materialism, and The Hard Problem. Even if you are extremely familiar with all of this, I would recommend reading Carroll's summary. Wow! I was engaged in a way that surprised me. He breathed new life into these debates. I was a tiny bit sad that he left out Andy Clark's work (especially in relation to Chalmers), but considering this book was more than 17 hours long (Audible), I understand that he didn't have time for everything. It's just that Clark's work (along with the Churchland's work) is what made Philosophy of Mind so great for me.

Carroll ended the book with what I can only say was a beautiful essay I didn't know I needed to read. If you are unfamiliar with the Is vs Ought problem, you can find out in this section what it is and why should you care. If you are well familiar with this question, you will enjoy the discussion provided on Carroll about morality. Deeply satisfying! A+! He ended on a more personal note than any thing I have read by him to date. It was truly a lovely book, from start to finish.

I think Carroll will be remembered along side of Copernicus and Darwin for providing us with gentle but clear evidence that we are not special. Far from being a depressing nihilistic view of the world and universe, Carroll showed his reader (even if you read with your ears) how reality is actually more special than any false belief about being special. Understanding can be the deepest religion of all (idk if Carroll would put it quite like that, but it's my takeaway message).

****I was going to include in this review a bit about Sean Carroll's "planet v black hole belief system," but I posted about it on Facebook and butchered what was an excellent analogy. I can only say that you need to read it for yourself. If you get the analogy, you will forever ask yourself, "Am I being a black hole right now? "Am I following the evidence or am I fooling myself and holding tight to heuristically driven fallacies?" I can see a new viral way of thinking springing from this analogy -- e.g. insults or memes that include the statement, "Stop being such a black hole!"

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Marvelously appealing blend of science and philosophy
By Brian Hines
After getting "The Big Picture" yesterday, I avidly read the first four chapters this morning. I rarely share a review before I've read the entirety of a book, but in this case I have to make an exception. Because -- I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!

I'm an inveterate consumer of both science and philosophy books. Almost always, the scientists lack the ability to talk about philosophy cogently, and almost always the philosophers are clueless about basic scientific understandings. So each frustrate my desire to simultaneously (1) learn about how the world is, and (2) find meaning in the world, given how it is.

Sean Carroll is the sort of writer I adore. The chapters I just read show that he's marvelously capable of talking about findings of modern science in a philosophically productive (and provocative) way. Meaning, he takes dry facts and infuses them with the moist richness of meaning.

For example, I was blown away by his discussion on p. 32 about determinism: "The universe is resolutely focused on the current moment; it marches forward, instant to instant, under the grip of unbreakable physical laws, with no heed paid to its glorious accomplishments or to its hopeful prospects."

That is freakishly great writing. I've never thought of the universe, or reality, this way before. Sure, I've meditated daily for most of my 67 years. I've been exposed to countless mystics, masters, yogis, and such who talk about living in the reality of the present moment. But I've never come across a scientist who said what Carroll did in his easily understandable way: at the deepest level, every happening of any sort is proceeding because of the present moment.

So thank you, Dr. Carroll for a book that has already given me so much satisfaction, and is sure to bring more as I savor the remaining chapters. I may come across something that I don't agree with, or consider untrue. However, having sampled Carroll's quality of writing and thinking, I doubt very much that my opinion of the entire book will change. This is a wonderful read for anyone, like me, who enjoys their scientific facts spiced up with a tasty seasoning of philosophical meaning.

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