The Life of the Mind

This book by Hannah Arendt was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Lex Fridman. The people who vouched for it on air: guest. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “she has another book called the life of the mind which is gigantic and frankly it's one of the best books i've ever read”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it's one of the best books i've ever read and i've read it many times”
  guest · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 202002:41:44

  Said during "Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief | Lex Fridman Podcast #149". The episode features Diana Walsh Pasulka: Professor of philosophy and religion at UNC Wilmington and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. She studies belief, Catholic history, and how the UFO phenomenon functions as an emerging religion. A religion scholar argues UFOs are becoming a new religion, and that belief itself, in tech and aliens alike, manifests reality.