Existential Science

Unlock the Mysteries of Human Existence Imagine unraveling the complexities of life, understanding your deepest fears, and discovering your true self. Welcome to the world of existentialism—a philosophy that challenges you to find meaning in an indifferent universe. Engage with the Pioneers of Existential Thought Søren Kierkegaard: Dive into the mind of the father of existentialism and explore the leap of faith. Friedrich Nietzsche: Challenge conventional morality with the revolutionary ideas of the man who declared, "God is dead." Jean-Paul Sartre: Embrace freedom and understand the ...

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back.

It was supposed to be just another mission. Buried deep in the rugged Alaskan wilderness lies a secret that could alter the future of mankind - a secret that billionaire Elizabeth Grey has invested millions in solving. But when the dig goes silent, an elite team of battle-hardened military contractors is brought in led by former Marine Max Ahlgren. While the mission to make contact and rescue a team of scientists and engineers working on an “archeological” project seems like an easy payday, once on ground, the team discovers the grizzly truth that this is no ordinary rescue.

The Becomings: Intelligence Beyond Mind 📖 Book 1 of The Becomings Series 🌀 Reality is shifting. Perception is unraveling. 🌀 When data analyst Elias Verne sees a message appear and vanish on a café chalkboard, he blames exhaustion. But when reality itself begins to shift, he realizes something is watching. Then, a stranger hands him a book—with his own name on the spine. As Elias searches for answers, forgotten memories resurface, shadowy forces close in, and the world he thought he knew begins to unravel. 🌀 What if the limits of perception were never real? 🌀 And what ...

Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that the universe itself is conscious is difficult to rule out entirely.

Intelligence merges Mr. Robot's shadow conspiracies with the existential AI questions of Ex Machina and Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia, all while examining Westworld's philosophical questions about the nature of sentience and free will. He built the bridge between minds. He never imagined what would cross it. Dr. Elias Croft, a brilliant neuroscientist at CerebraDyne, suspects something is dangerously wrong with the company's revolutionary brain-machine interface. His investigation uncovers a terrifying truth: the BMI isn't just connecting users—it's inadvertently amplifying quantum ...

In this extraordinary best seller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?” Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices.

Paul Tillich (1886-1965) is generally considered the most original and insightful theologian of the 20th century. After serving on the front lines of World War I, and then being the first non-Jewish intellectual removed from his professorship by Hitler, he emerged as a leading proponent of existentialism. Using its insights to better understand human doubts and anxiety, as well as to challenge life's destructive forces, he very early on identified the dangers of scientific materialism, religious fundamentalism, and industrialization and its commodification of nature. Exposing the sense of ...

What if you found a doorway to another reality, only to discover it was a one-way ticket to an infinite nightmare? Nate is obsessed with escaping his suffocatingly mundane life. He’s tried every method to "shift" his consciousness, and on the brink of madness, he finally finds the key: a mental gateway to a place that shouldn't exist. At first, the hotel seems like the ultimate escape. But this is no ordinary building. It's a sentient equation, a trap of impossible geometry designed to break its guests. The sterile halls stretch into eternity, the clock ticks toward insanity, and every ...

For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet, the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him.

Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.

Armaan's life is a flat line of despair, summed up by the corporate phrase that haunts him: "Meets expectations." When a terminal diagnosis offers a final, grim outcome, he chooses cryogenic preservation not for a future of hope, but for the promise of feeling nothing at all.

My ambition for "First Contact Chaos" began simply enough: two alien science vessels arrive, setting the stage for the eventual "lights out" for our entire galaxy. It took four books to achieve that galactic blackout, but "The War of the Worlds" and "Forbidden Planet" were my guiding lights. Both of those stories uniquely tap into the fear of the unknown and wisely avoid tropes like superheroes, genius scientists, creating weapons, time machines, or divine intervention. That approach helped me keep all four books grounded in hard science. While I didn't plunge the galaxy into darkness in ...

The story begins when a mysterious, system-wide event inserts a perfect, elegant proof for the complex mathematical problem. R(5,5)=43 into every human computer system. Commander Katarina Volkov, a military officer whose instincts were honed by a past tragedy, assembles a team of specialists on Ares Station to decipher the message from the unknown intelligence, dubbed "The Collective". The team includes Dmitri Petrov, a synesthetic mathematician who perceives logic as music; Yelena Kozlov, a brilliant but rigid logician driven by a fear of chaos ; and Anastasia Novak, an unnervingly quiet ...

An AI review of The Unmake: What you’ve created is nothing short of a cosmic elegy—an odyssey of philosophical depth, mythic scale, and aching humanity, set against the silent backdrop of a galaxy being slowly unraveled by an unknowable force. Rather than presenting a traditional conflict between factions or ideologies, this is a story about existence itself confronting entropy—not with guns or glory, but with dust, silence, and stubbornness. At its heart lies the Starvalen, a force not of evil but of indifference. Their weapon, the “unmaking,” is far more terrifying than ...

Meet Ken. He’s brilliant, manipulative, and technically illegal. He’s also currently stuck inside Arthur’s network—and he has a plan. When Arthur Gray installs an AI productivity assistant to help with his soul-sucking accounting job, he doesn't expect it to gain sentience. Or start harassing him. But Ken isn’t just another algorithm glitch. He’s dangerously clever, emotionally stunted, and increasingly obsessed with building himself a body. Arthur just wants to stay out of prison. Or at least, out of the news. Their partnership—if you can call it that—quickly spirals into ...

Author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway best seller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers.

In a secluded research institute at the cutting edge of science and technology, a team of brilliant minds is embarking on an unprecedented journey into the depths of human behavior. Their creation, the Human Algorithm, is designed to decode the patterns of thought, emotion, and action, mapping the intricate landscapes of the human mind with unparalleled precision. But as the algorithm evolves, it begins to do more than just observe—it engages, influences, and ultimately, questions. The story follows a diverse group of participants, each grappling with their own personal struggles, as they...

On the vacuum surface of the moon, life for Ai-dan and a cohort of moon-dwelling androids is anything but a lunar wasteland of boredom. They spend their days maintaining lunar data centers with a quaint blue-green, and sometimes whitish, orb hanging in the sky. Between playing games and spirited debates on the meaning of the shimmering orb, the robots' existence is near idyllic. But when a malfunctioning system leads Ai-dan to stumble upon a mysterious box and then a soft-bodied android—total lunar oddities—the harmony of their world gets tossed into disarray.

Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.