Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas| Book Club

Suggested by: Gautam S.
Pages to read: 233
ISBN: 9781668006535 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9781668006542 (Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is a fluke?
•How much effect can the smallest act have?
•How does the methodology of cause and effect, affect how people think?
•What is the difference between contingency and convergence?
•What is the disconnect between how do people think of the past and the present?
•What is the delusion of individualism?
•How much control do people have? How much influence do people have?
•During WWII, why were the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than other cities?
•What is amor fati?
•What effect did the asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula have on the planet?
•What is Laplace’s Demon?
•What is the butterfly effect?
•What is the difference between how Western and Eastern philosophy considers the individual?
•What happened to the marbled crayfish?
•What do people think they want, and what do people actually obtain? What kind of reality do people have?
•How do brain process information?
•What is the paradox of the swarm?
•What is path dependency?
•What is the effect of adaptive systems?
•What is emergence?
•What is self-organized criticality?
•What caused WWI?
•What are Heraclitus Rules?
•How have oracles changed?
•What is the difference between risk and uncertainty?
•What was and was not known about Bin Laden?
•What is rational choice theory?
•How do narratives effect information retention?
•How was Britainy created?
•What was the Pine Tree Riot?
•Would you kill baby Hitler?
•What is the Great Man Theory?
•What is the Cassandra problem?
•What was the conflict between Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn?
•What defined the week?
•What is P-hacking?
•What is the publication bias?
•What is truthiness?
•What is mathiness?
•What was the Fragile Families Challenge?
•What effect did On the Nature of Things have?
•What is the paradox of 21st century life?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.