I am very frustrated by those who will try to sell people simplistic certainties and this can become very very damaging indeed. We are in most now in a war propaganda which is dramatically simplistic and flattening reality into narrative which is one-sided. I think this nourish a set of decisions that might be a disaster for humankind and the impossibility of questioning there that narrative. The difficulty of having a serious rein conversation because we fall in a group mentality, he says.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal is joined by writer, science populariser and theoretical, Carlo Rovelli.
He joins us to talk about the new English translation of his first book, Anaximander.
They all also discuss the singular genius of the philosophers of the past, the importance of questioning our reality, the significance of a typewriter in his writing career, and his admiration for the theoretical physicist John Wheeler.
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