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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
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Greene credits this book, read in his twenties, with shaping how he thinks about mortality driving human behaviour.
Why it came up
- Greene read it in his twenties and it still shapes how he thinks
- Becker's case that awareness of mortality drives most of what we do
- A Pulitzer winner that keeps resurfacing decades later
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- Diary of a CEOProfessor Brian Greene: The Threat of AI, Consciousness & The End of HumanityAug 17, 2026Guest
“I read a book I was about in my 20s called The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker”
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