| Book | Main points |
| Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan “What Is Life?” | 1. Most of Earth life is bacteria. 2. The great symbiotic mergers. |
| John R. Searle “The Rediscovery of the Mind” | 1. Descartes’ dualism is wrong. 2. The mind is not like a computer. |
| Stuart Kauffman “At Home in the Universe” | 1. Complex autocatalytic networks can yield order for free 2. In evolution we climb peaks of excellence. |
| Roland Peterson “Everyone Is Right” | 1. Insights of all great religions are the same. 2. Esoteric theory of etheric, astral, etc., bodies. |
| Fritjof Capra “The Web of Life” | 1. Holistic Zeitgeist. 2. Process perspective 3. Cybernetics. 4. Jantsch early synthesis. 5. Chaos theory. 6. Ecology. 7. Symbiogenesis. 8. Mind and cognition. |
| Richard Feynman “Six Not So Easy Pieces:” | 1. Lorentz transformation. 2. Light cones. 3. Vector algebra. 4. Curved spaces. 5. Momentum and energy 6. Time is like space, but different. |
| Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pederson “Mathematical Reflections” | 1. Fibonacci numbers. 2. Pascal triangles. 3. Mod arithmetic. 4. Infinite sets. 5. Fractal geometry. |
| Karen Armstrong “The History of God” | 1. Parzufs/Emanations 2. Ousia and energeia (essence and powers) 3. Axial age. 4. Breaking of the vessels (primal fall) |
| Timothy Ferris “The Whole Shebang” | 1. The Big Bang. 2. The finite but unbounded universe. 3. Dark matter. 4. Cosmic hierarchy of structures. 5. Cosmic evolution. 6. Symmetry-breaking. 7. Inflation. 8. Many histories – many universes. |
| Ilya Prigogine “The End of Certainty” | 1. The arrow of time. 2. Dissipative structures. 3. From particles to ensembles. 4. Nonintegrable wholes 5. Bifurcation and contingency. 6. Frequent and persistent interactions. |
| Antonio R. Damasio “Descartes’ Error” | 1. Emotion is necessary for planning, even if reason is intact. 2. Motivation is needed for action. 3. The prefrontal lobe must be linked to the limbic system. |
| Roger Penrose “The Large, the Small and the Human Mind” | 1. Computation does not require understanding, but the human mind does. 2. The mind can understand truths not accessible to computer or algorithm. 3. Quantum theory has puzzles (Z-mysteries) and paradoxes (X-mysteries). 4. The latter include wave collapse on observation; it requires a radical theory change. 5. The non-transitive 3 worlds: Platonic, physical, mental. 6. Macro-coherence in the brain? Collapsing quantum superposition differently, by OR function. |
| Gregory Bateson “Mind and Nature” | 1. The map is not the territory. 2. Perception process is unconscious. 3. Divergent and convergent sequences. 4. Embryology and evolution are different 5. Number is different from quantity. 6. Logic is a poor model for causality. 7. We perceive only differences. 8. Mind is made up of non-mental parts. 9. Structure @ process. 10. Hierarchy of logical types. |
| Tyler Volk “Gaia’s Body” |