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@mwlucky, Philosophy and Persian Litterature, East Asian-Philosophers and Greece Philosophers.

Sa’di, Omar Khayyam, Ferdows, Khwaja and Jami.
Sun Tzu, Lao-Tzu and Confucius.
Euclid, Homer, Socrates, Plato, Augustus and Aristotle.

Do any have other suggestions (philosophers, thinkers)?

Finally a fellow lover of physics!
I found schrodinger’s cat a very interesting and mind boggling experiment.Try to read Stephen hawking’s book or if you just want the summary,
Visit:http://www.livescience.com/8869-8-shocking-learned-stephen-hawking-book.html

and a very interesting physics channel on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics?feature=watch

Every now and then when I dunk my brain in the world of Astro physics, a man titled dr.Neil Tyson makes it really simple to understand. True genius can breakdown complex structure for simple minds like mine.

Philosophers my favorites is a long list but recently I found aldous huxley and classic Alexander Poe

Stuff actually worth looking into is illusions, Stuff your brain fails to understand. And sacred geometry! It a slow learning for me but cool none the less:)

@graschi, Omg Newton was such a crazy fuck.

@dalniente, Plant perception? Like my work? Signal perception -> transduction -> reaction?
You like that? Why lol

I find how to make illegal chemicals (drugs) fascinating, and how people get away with it.
I find how these drugs affect the mind incredible…
I find growing plants and horticulture fascinating…
I love watching other people do art…
Astrophysics is very interesting, in lay-men terms.
I find electrodynamics incredible (tesla)
Otherwise everything else sucks

Learn physiology

@dalniente, I have a qualm with it…

Their sensory patterns are so riddled with cross talk and cascading pathways and agonist and repressors and so forth, its a tangled web of interactions. Its like trying to untie a “HEAP” (lol) of tangled phone cords – I pull on this one and the whole thing moves, if I remove a few cords, I Can see which ones its tied closer too.

but really – its like, EVERYTHING effects EVERYTHING in plants… To make GMO’s that are successful in any right is quite the accomplishment!

A short list of things I like to learn/think about:

- persuasion, communications, marketing, propaganda, and motivation (hence my display name)
-different languages (i’ve studied Latin and Russian)
-geography (particularly in terms of cities, and even more specifically in the US)
-i am also fascinated by art history, which is weird because I grew up not liking art very much and was a big sports guy

As for theorists/people/thinkers, my shortlist is:

-Edward Bernays
-Marshall McLuhan
-Karl Marx
-Alexander III
-Ivy Lee

@ijesuschrist, natural selection itself is most certainly not random.

In the end I think we agree. You also have much more experience in the field. I do think “intelligence” should be avoided in more formal settings, and I hold true to that thought.

@dalniente, Depends what you define as random… In random I mean, the mutations that occur aren’t intended by the organism, and thus the selection is not intended, but rather “random” – however survival of the fittest, in the sense that the strongest survive isn’t random but how there are different fitnesses in the landscape of organisms, is… generally accepted as random.

I read an incredible book about evolution (one of my absolute favorite topics) it was called “At home in the universe” DEFINITELY recommend that one.

I’m a big fan of psychology, specifically “transpersonal psychology.” Try some Carl Jung or Abraham Maslow