Consciousness and the brain by Stanislas Dehaene 2014
A neuronal network take on the global workspace theory of consciousness. This is a great book...
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Category: TSR BOOKS
How pleasure works by Paul Bloom 2010
What we like and why we like it. Bloom’s book ostensibly has two purposes. The main one in...
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The strange order of things by Antonio Damasio 2018
Homeostasis is the key to consciousness. In his latest book, Damasio strongly reaffirms the theory...
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Affect regulation and the origin of the self by Allan N. Schore 1994/2016
Self regulation emerges during the first 18 months of life. Too many books on the topic of...
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The righteous mind by Jonathan Haidt 2012
Morally, we’re largely intuitive, with limited reasoning powers. The righteous mind is a difficult...
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The mind within the brain by A. David Redish 2013
Decision making partly explained. Redish’s book tackles the very important area of decision making...
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Complexity: a very short introduction by John H Holland 2014
A full theory of complex adaptive systems still eludes us. Many theories of consciousness state...
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Identity by Francis Fukuyama 2018
A different perspective on ‘self’. Fukuyama’s book is actually about the modern phenomenon of...
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Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari 2016
A fascinating but doom-laden account of our future. Harari is a no-holds-barred materialist. With...
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The kingdom of speech by Tom Wolfe 2016
Asks the right question. Not sure about the answer. Wolfe starts by nailing the key question. We...
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The consciousness instinct by Michael Gazzaniga 2018
Consciousness is what separates life from non-life. Gazzaniga commences with a wonderful summary...
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Mind time: the temporal factor in consciousness by Benjamin Libet 2004
One of the most important pieces of research into consciousness. Libet’s experiments famously...
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The mind is flat by Nick Chater 2018
We really do live in the present. Chater proposes that every perception and every thought we have...
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The runaway species by A Brandt & D Eagleman 2017
Our brains are designed to master both predictability and creativity. The authors draw attention...
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Rationality & the reflective mind by Keith E Stanovich 2011
The dual-process mind moves to a more granular tri-process model. Dual-process theory became...
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The mind doesn’t work that way by Jerry Fodor 2000
A cautionary note on the validity of computational theory of mind. His book is 18 years old now...
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Consciousness: confessions of a romantic reductionist by Christof Koch 2012
Another subscriber to integrated information theory. After years spent trying to hunt down the...
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Common sense, the Turing Test, and the quest for real AI by Hector J Levesque 2017
Today’s AI still miles off equalling human common sense reasoning. Levesque makes a key point...
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The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel 2014
The true story of one of the most famous psychology tests ever. Some 50 years after launching what...
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Cerebral Cortex by Edmund T Rolls 2016
Masterly account of the cortex. Rolls has produced the definitive account of the workings of the...
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