So, I finally got to read Sean Carroll's "The Big Picture - On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself".
Highly recommended to STEM and humanities people alike, and also to non-scientists (you can skip a few technical parts without it being too much of a problem to follow the broader narrative).
It's a very good book overall that does exactly what it says on the tin, both from a scientific, moral and philosophical/ontological point of view. (Of course I am biased because I too am a hardcore atheist and poetic naturalist with a keen eye for emergence theories).
It's not a book addressed at _specialists_ seeking in-depth knowledge about any topic covered in the book, and who will likely find that some parts a bit superficial/ insufficient/approximative/too much of a simplification. But that's not what the book is about (note also that it was written pre-all the bullshit AI drama, and some bits could be worthy of an update to take this into account in the discussion about consciousness and how brains work).
On the fundamental physics, complexity, astro and cosmo part, which is what I know most about, it is spot on. And I also found it quite good at explaining Bayesian reasoning and how we apply it in scientific research and perhaps less conciously in our daily lives. #science #philosophy #complexity #physics #astrodon