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Summary: one of his very best
Review: I have serious disagreements with R. A. Wilson's whole approach, but I must give the devil his due. This is such a clear and concise presentation of his philosophical system and such an effortless display of understanding of all the most fundamental philosophical issues in the whole history of Western thought (the introduction should be required reading for every freshman humanities student) that only a writer of his education and skill level could possibly have pulled it off. In terms of subject matter it's the same as all his other books (minus his worst excesses), so don't go looking for anything groundbreaking, but if you're new to Wilson or haven't figured him out yet, by all means get this one.
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Summary: a mostly childish little rant
Review: If one knows little of physics, of the "quantum" flavor or otherwise, reading this book is no way to start addressing such a deficiency. Why? Because neither does Wilson. (The same should be said about his knowledge of psychology.)
Those who rate this book highly I can only suppose are they who have not studied enough to recognize immediately how little Wilson has to say that is either new, correct, and/or not misguided. I finished the book for no other reason than that (a) I figured it had to get better (It didn't.), and (b) I was traveling and got bored (a condition not addressed in any way by this book).
That Wilson uses his book to demonstrate, with truly sickening repetition, his outright contempt for Catholics and unveiled hatred of conservatives (No doubt there are others on his list of those to be hated.) tells us everything that tolerant and open-minded people need to know about the author. Even if Wilson had the academic creditials reasonably needed to write a book such as this (He doesn't.), his bigotry alone would make clear that one should expect to find no real "science" in this rambling book. And there ain't any.
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Summary: Psychologist gives 2 thumbs up
Review: Is there any such thing as reality? Wilson focuses on the counter-intuitive concept that our own delicate mental machinery is all we really have to create "reality". Not a new idea - the phenomenologists have been writing about it for a century - but this book makes a nice bridge between science and the "touchy feely" world of personal psychological experience. Excellent for that engineer on your gift list, who "just doesn't get" things psychological.
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Summary: Excellent Followup to "Prometheus Rising"
Review: It's every bit as good and useful as the first book. It will change your life again.
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Summary: the physics of mind can be fun!
Review: Learning how to use your brain is never more fun than with the wonderfully zany, enlightening methods of RAW.RAW is like the college professor you always wished you had: joyful, upbeat, cutting edge, the rock n' roll version of the intellectual. Quantum Psychology is enlightening in the most fun ways!
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Summary: Core Reading
Review: May be the best of Wilson's book for summing up his version of how the mind works. An excellent integration of diverse sciences, complete with many experiments you can do yourself. Also try Prometheus Rising, and Coincidance.
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Summary: Core Reading
Review: May be the best of Wilson's books for summing up his version of how the mind works. An excellent integration of diverse sciences, complete with many experiments you can do yourself. Also try Prometheus Rising, and Coincidance.
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Summary: And the definition of "is" is?
Review: Maybe this is what Clinton was referring to in his infamous linguistic/legal moment before the Star Inquisition. All joking aside, this book is a MUST read for anyone wanting to start getting rid of the semantic spooks in their psyche. This undefinable book of wisdom that weaves a coherent thesis out of such diverse topics as semantics, psychology, physics, model agnosticism and subtle humor makes clear better than anything out there just how much our perceptions and behavior are controlled/influenced by embedded language biases. Just learning to write in e-prime (english without the word "is") makes the book a worthwhile experience. Quantum Psychology opened me to a whole new way of thinking and perceiving, and that is something I can say but very few other books. I truly had no idea the robotizing effect language has on our behavior and perceptions--its not a discovery you can be "told"--you must experience it through the exercises in this book. You owe it to yourself to check this one out.
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Summary: I read this in two days!
Review: Robert Anton Wilson has masterfully given you the keys to unlocking previous thought patterns and re-encoding new programs. Sometimes technical, yet always entertaining, you will thouroughly enjoy this book as much as I did. Referring to Korzybski's Non-Aristotelian linguistics to current thoughts in quantum physics, he illustrates a new way of thinking that is conducive to greater perceptions and a broader sense of 'self'.
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Summary: Forever relevant
Review: This book follows in the footsteps of Wilson's earlier work, _Prometheus Rising_, with an emphasis on language, psychology, and physics. It makes the intelligent or enlightened reader to smile in acknowledgement; it forces the average to change. How much depends on their ability to do so. Some of the material seems incomplete (with little attention to physics' Anthropic Principle), but in all fairness, one can only go so far before one has written several books, and Wilson certainly has. More careful and insightful than _Prometheus Rising_, it offers fans of Wilson his best work, and serves as a great introduction to his older and newer ideas.
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