Authors

Authors who write books that make you smarter.

A list of the authors who have most contributed or best encapsulate the emergent metaculture philosophy.

Check the Reading List for a list of specific book recommendations.

The authors on this list (and some that aren't) are contributing many books, articles, podcasts, and other content that expand on these ideas every day. Many are worth a follow on social media, if you still participate in that despite the documented addiction and mental health risks it poses.

This wiki attempts to create a single work that synthesizes the ideas of all of these authors. It would have a much easier time of it if these actual authors decided to become editors! But if they did we would never know, since it is strictly anonymous.

Neurophilosophers

The best authors tackling the intersection of science and spirituality come from the field of neuroscience. This makes a lot of sense given the fact that the nature of consciousness is a central theme in all religions, and neuroscientists are the ones who are finally making the connection between these subjective experiences and the objective, material causes for them in the brain.

Those that aren't neuroscientists tend to come from the fields of sociology, evolutionary biology and psychology, and some theoretical physicists as well. Others are philosophers, journalists, bloggers, podcasters and other content producers that focus on these subjects.

Which is which? Maybe one day this list will be categorized. For now, it's an unsorted list of very good authors who are pushing the boundaries of metaculture.

While a number of historical works have contributed to metaculture, this list will focus on authors who have published works within the last 20 years or so, since these take into account all of the ideas that came beforehand and push the boundaries of thought towards the future.

Neuroscience and Psychology

• Robert Sapolsky
• Andrew Newberg
• Jonathan Haidt
• Jennifer Michael Hecht
• Max Bennett
• Sam Harris
• David Eagleman
• Steven Pinker
• Daniel Dennett
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Patricia Churchland
• Shankar Vedantam
• Michael Pollan
• Oliver Sacks
• Dan Harris
• Gretchen Rubin

Complex Systems and Cosmology

• Bobby Azarian
• Neil Theise
• Saul Perlmutter
• James Gleick
• Carl Sagan
• Stephen Hawking
• Sean Carroll
• E. O. Wilson
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Roger Penrose
• Freeman Dyson
• Ray Kurzweil
• Paul Bloom

Philosophy, Ethics, Politics, and Social Commentary

• Slavoj Žižek
• Yuval Noah Harari
• Naomi Klein
• Norman Doidge
• Maria Popova
• Francis Collins
• Tali Sharot
• Jamil Zaki
• Yujin Nagasawa
• C. Thi Nguyen
• Brendan Graham Dempsey
• Ken Wilber
• Tenzin Gyatso
• Helena Hartmann
• Michael Schur
• Meghan O'Gieblyn
• Kieran Setiya

Videos on Authors

Man to Man with Dean Learner has fascinating interviews with best-selling authors like Garth Marenghi and Glynn Nimron.

Man to Man with Dean Learner

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