Books I'd tell my friends to get. Contained a mix of mind-bending science, deep philosophy, and a touch of existential chaos. These books will make you question reality, feel everything, and maybe break your brain in the best way possible.
This books opens up to me on how a "normal" could be and feel like.
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture|Hardcover
It is a metaphysical detective story with surreal twists about order and chaos.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
Filled with recursion, intelligence, and meaning as a cosmic puzzle.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Explains about the foundational for data-driven reasoning and human cognitive bias.
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
An ethical critique of algorithms in modern society.
Weapons of Math Destruction: Big Data & Inequality
Tells the story of how information became the fabric of the universe.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
This is a wild, accessible math-philosophy about infinity and consciousness.
Infinity and the Mind: Science & Philosophy
Consist of short stories that twist logic, infinity, and metaphysics into art.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
A catalog of famous paradoxes with rigorous reasoning and humor.
Paradoxes by R. M. Sainsbury
A story about alienation, intellect, and quiet despair rendered beautifully.
No Longer Human - Dazai Osamu
A rhythmic dance of interior monologues about identity and time.
Virginia Woolf - The Waves
A meditation on humanity’s cosmic smallness.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Kaku interviews scientists and forecasts how breakthroughs in computing, AI, nanotechnology, medicine, energy and space might transform human life in the near, mid and long term (to 2100). He blends pop-science with serious speculation.
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily ...
