I remember reading a book about philosophy a few years ago, but I don’t remember what it’s called, despite remembering several things about it. However searching the web of asking LLMs with what I remember has proved to not find it.

Can any of you help?

What I remember

  • It’s ordered into chapters by topic
  • It’s lighthearted in tone, despite being mostly nonfiction, reminiscent of the style of What If or We Have No Idea
  • They like telling stories to illustrate their points
  • One topic was about identity and there was a story about two people’s brains getting swapped
  • There was a mention of the simulation hypothesis with aliens that put a boy inside a video game for his birthday gift because they saw he liked the game - brain in a vat
  • Various time travel paradoxes and how they could be solved - diverging universes, multiple universes, closed timelike curves
  • The cover was fun and bold, and it mentioned on it things that it contained inside
  • One chapter was about the ethics of eating animals and there was a story about giants eating people (because people eat animals)
  • There was a chapter about God
  • I didn’t finish it, I want to read the rest of it

Please help me find it