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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (43961)

10/11/2013 7:34:56 PM

From: koan

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My obsessions is that he was the smartest of them alI. I try to find the smartest of them all in all fields and learn form them.

The most knowledgeable person of the last century was probably Bertrand Russell. I read all three volumes of his biography,

Sort of makes sense, doesn't it-lo?? Learn from the best and brightest!

I agree imagination is more important than knowledge. But knowledge leads to imagination.

Maybe I posted this to you?

Robert Sawyer. Science fiction writer:

Just finished the second book of his www.wake trilogy, www.watch. I am sure now. Best author I have ever read. His stories are great and he writes right on the edge of knowledge and especially about how we evolved and how the brain works, basic logic, science, math, history, you name it, and what the future may hold for us.

He is a modern day Bertrand Russell in the comprehensive nature and sophistication of his knowledge.

And he uses the smartest people on earth to draw his information from e.g. Roger Penrose, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins. And IMO his reasoning is near perfect about everything. Amazing guy.

I have never found any writer or book nearly as good. I see our cultural evolution at a wave rolling into the future. This guy surfs the front of that wave with near perfection. As well he seems to know exactly what many people find interesting. His stories are exciting, great mysteries, informational and he even includes a bit of romance.

And one can tell he is a teacher at heart as he squeezes in facts and logic which I almost always agree with if I understand it, or learn from it if I don't. Which is usually the case.

I only harp on this guy so people who might find him as interesting as I do, don't overlook him. I am on his 6th book now pretty much reading them all cover to cover. And I find myself giddy at times with so many new concepts and knowledge to consider, I never thought about or knew about.

As mentioned, just trying to give a heads up to those who might find him as much fun as I do.

PS I also would recommend another of his trilogies starting with Hominid about a parallel universe where a Neanderthal quantum computer physicist is transported to Sudbury Ontario.