50 Books like The Hidden Spring

The Experience Machine

by Andy Clark • 2023

Your brain guesses reality instead of recording it, and the mismatch shapes everything.

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🧠 Predictive Processing 💭 Consciousness Studies 🦾 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Distributed Cognition ❤️ Embodied Emotion

The Experience Machine 97%

Your brain guesses reality instead of recording it, and the mismatch shapes everything.

by Andy Clark 2023

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Predictive Processing 💭 Consciousness Studies 🦾 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Distributed Cognition ❤️ Embodied Emotion

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

by Patrick House • 2022

Movement built consciousness. Nineteen scientific guesses at how the rest of your mind followed.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Predictive Processing 🏃 Embodied Cognition

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness Summary

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness 97%

Movement built consciousness. Nineteen scientific guesses at how the rest of your mind followed.

by Patrick House 2022

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774 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Predictive Processing 🏃 Embodied Cognition

Surfing Uncertainty

by Andy Clark • 2015

Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔮 Predictive Processing 🧘 Embodied Cognition 🌱 Enactivism

Surfing Uncertainty 97%

Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.

by Andy Clark 2015

4.09

381 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔮 Predictive Processing 🧘 Embodied Cognition 🌱 Enactivism

Being You

by Anil Seth • 2020

Your brain does not read reality. It invents it. Every sensation, every self, is a guess.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🪞 Neuroscience Of Self 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception Psychology 🫀 Embodied Cognition

Being You 97%

Your brain does not read reality. It invents it. Every sensation, every self, is a guess.

by Anil Seth 2020

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🪞 Neuroscience Of Self 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception Psychology 🫀 Embodied Cognition

Wider Than the Sky

by Gerald M. Edelman • 2004

The mind is not a program. Consciousness is built by neural selection, not by running code.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience 🎨 Qualia Debate 🦴 Embodied Cognition

Wider Than the Sky 97%

The mind is not a program. Consciousness is built by neural selection, not by running code.

by Gerald M. Edelman 2004

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421 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience 🎨 Qualia Debate 🦴 Embodied Cognition

Self Comes to Mind

by António Damásio • 2010

The self is a process built from body maps: three layers that turn mind into experience.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🦴 Embodied Cognition 💓 Emotion And Reason

Self Comes to Mind 96%

The self is a process built from body maps: three layers that turn mind into experience.

by António Damásio 2010

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🦴 Embodied Cognition 💓 Emotion And Reason

Synaptic Self

by Joseph E. LeDoux • 2002

Your self is built from synapses: how memory, emotion, and consciousness circuits create identity.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Self 🔄 Neuroplasticity 📸 Memory And Identity 😶 Unconscious Emotion 💡 Consciousness Studies

Synaptic Self 96%

Your self is built from synapses: how memory, emotion, and consciousness circuits create identity.

by Joseph E. LeDoux 2002

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Self 🔄 Neuroplasticity 📸 Memory And Identity 😶 Unconscious Emotion 💡 Consciousness Studies

On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins • 2004

The brain runs one algorithm for sight, sound, and thought: memory and prediction.

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🧠 Predictive Processing 🤖 Brain Inspired Ai 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 💾 Memory And Learning 🧬 Neuroscience Of Intelligence

On Intelligence 96%

The brain runs one algorithm for sight, sound, and thought: memory and prediction.

by Jeff Hawkins 2004

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7k+ ratings

🧠 Predictive Processing 🤖 Brain Inspired Ai 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 💾 Memory And Learning 🧬 Neuroscience Of Intelligence

The Ravenous Brain

by Daniel Bor • 2012

Consciousness is a biological trick evolution built, and its failures reveal mental illness.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 👁️ Attention And Awareness

The Ravenous Brain 96%

Consciousness is a biological trick evolution built, and its failures reveal mental illness.

by Daniel Bor 2012

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427 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 👁️ Attention And Awareness

Feeling & Knowing

by António Damásio • 2021

Consciousness begins in the body: feelings, not thought, build the first sense of self.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤸 Embodied Cognition ❤️ Affective Neuroscience 🧬 Brain-Body Connection 🧬 Evolution Of Mind

Feeling & Knowing 96%

Consciousness begins in the body: feelings, not thought, build the first sense of self.

by António Damásio 2021

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤸 Embodied Cognition ❤️ Affective Neuroscience 🧬 Brain-Body Connection 🧬 Evolution Of Mind

Brain-Wise

by Patricia S. Churchland • 2002

Everything we call mind is brain activity. Once philosophy accepts that, all its questions change.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Neurophilosophy 💭 Consciousness Studies ❤️ Emotion And Reason ⛓️ Free Will Debate

Brain-Wise 96%

Everything we call mind is brain activity. Once philosophy accepts that, all its questions change.

by Patricia S. Churchland 2002

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140 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Neurophilosophy 💭 Consciousness Studies ❤️ Emotion And Reason ⛓️ Free Will Debate

The Brain and the Meaning of Life

by Paul Thagard • 2010

Mental life is brain activity, and meaning is its reward for satisfying three deep human needs.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Mind Brain Identity 🔬 Neurophilosophy 🔭 Scientific Realism 📊 Evidence-Based Thinking

The Brain and the Meaning of Life Summary

The Brain and the Meaning of Life 96%

Mental life is brain activity, and meaning is its reward for satisfying three deep human needs.

by Paul Thagard 2010

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128 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Mind Brain Identity 🔬 Neurophilosophy 🔭 Scientific Realism 📊 Evidence-Based Thinking

Descartes' Error

by António Damásio • 1994

A railroad foreman's brain injury revealed that reason depends on emotion, not pure logic.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🦵 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Body-Mind Connection 🌌 Consciousness Studies

Descartes' Error 96%

A railroad foreman's brain injury revealed that reason depends on emotion, not pure logic.

by António Damásio 1994

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🦵 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Body-Mind Connection 🌌 Consciousness Studies

Looking for Spinoza

by António Damásio • 2001

A neuroscientist discovers a 17th-century philosopher already mapped the biology of joy and sorrow.

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🏛️ Neurophilosophy 🤝 Social Emotions ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧬 Embodied Cognition

Looking for Spinoza 96%

A neuroscientist discovers a 17th-century philosopher already mapped the biology of joy and sorrow.

by António Damásio 2001

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🏛️ Neurophilosophy 🤝 Social Emotions ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧬 Embodied Cognition

The Book of Minds

by Philip Ball • 2022

Intelligence is not a yes-or-no question. It is a landscape, and humans occupy a single coordinate.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🐙 Animal Intelligence 👽 Alien Intelligence 🤖 Artificial Intelligence

The Book of Minds 95%

Intelligence is not a yes-or-no question. It is a landscape, and humans occupy a single coordinate.

by Philip Ball 2022

3.95

210 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🐙 Animal Intelligence 👽 Alien Intelligence 🤖 Artificial Intelligence

The Forgetting Machine

by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga • 2017

Your memory stores roughly 125 MB. The real marvel is what your brain decides to forget.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧠 Constructive Memory 🧠 Role Of Forgetting 🧠 Neural Representation

The Forgetting Machine 95%

Your memory stores roughly 125 MB. The real marvel is what your brain decides to forget.

by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 2017

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧠 Constructive Memory 🧠 Role Of Forgetting 🧠 Neural Representation

Buddhism

by Damien Keown • 1996

Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?

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📖 Introductory Buddhism ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy 🛕 Theravada Buddhism 🪷 Mahayana Buddhism 🧘 Meditation Practice

Buddhism 95%

Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?

by Damien Keown 1996

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📖 Introductory Buddhism ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy 🛕 Theravada Buddhism 🪷 Mahayana Buddhism 🧘 Meditation Practice

Then I Am Myself the World

by Christof Koch • 2024

No matter how smart AI becomes, it will never be sentient. Consciousness is not computable.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🪞 Subjectivity And Self 🍄 Psychedelic Science 🔗 Mind-Body Problem

Then I Am Myself the World 95%

No matter how smart AI becomes, it will never be sentient. Consciousness is not computable.

by Christof Koch 2024

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388 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🪞 Subjectivity And Self 🍄 Psychedelic Science 🔗 Mind-Body Problem

Incognito

by David Eagleman • 2011

Your brain has already decided before you know it. Consciousness is just the press release.

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Incognito 95%

Your brain has already decided before you know it. Consciousness is just the press release.

by David Eagleman 2011

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A Thousand Brains

by Jeff Hawkins • 2021

Every cortical column in your brain learns a full model of the world. Then they vote.

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🧠 Neural Architecture 🗺️ Spatial Cognition 🕸️ Distributed Cognition 🔮 Predictive Processing 🤖 Brain-Inspired Ai

A Thousand Brains 95%

Every cortical column in your brain learns a full model of the world. Then they vote.

by Jeff Hawkins 2021

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🧠 Neural Architecture 🗺️ Spatial Cognition 🕸️ Distributed Cognition 🔮 Predictive Processing 🤖 Brain-Inspired Ai

The Mind's Past

by Michael S. Gazzaniga • 1998

Your brain acts, then invents a story about why. Your conscious self gets the press release.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 👁️ Consciousness Studies ⚡ Unconscious Processing 🎭 Self-Deception 🔄 Memory Distortion

The Mind's Past 95%

Your brain acts, then invents a story about why. Your conscious self gets the press release.

by Michael S. Gazzaniga 1998

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115 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 👁️ Consciousness Studies ⚡ Unconscious Processing 🎭 Self-Deception 🔄 Memory Distortion

An Alchemy of Mind

by Diane Ackerman • 2004

A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.

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🧠 Neuroscience 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🪞 Memory And Identity

An Alchemy of Mind 95%

A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.

by Diane Ackerman 2004

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🧠 Neuroscience 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🪞 Memory And Identity

Mind

by John Rogers Searle • 2004

Neither ghost nor computer: consciousness is a biological fact and its feel can't be explained away.

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883

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💡 Consciousness Studies 🎯 Intentionality 🔗 Mind-Body Problem 📚 Analytic Philosophy

Mind 95%

Neither ghost nor computer: consciousness is a biological fact and its feel can't be explained away.

by John Rogers Searle 2004

3.86

883 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💡 Consciousness Studies 🎯 Intentionality 🔗 Mind-Body Problem 📚 Analytic Philosophy

Projections

by Karl Deisseroth • 2021

How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.

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🧠 Biological Psychiatry 💔 Affective Neuroscience 🔌 Neural Circuits 🛋️ Patient Narratives 🧬 Evolutionary Biology

Projections 95%

How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.

by Karl Deisseroth 2021

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🧠 Biological Psychiatry 💔 Affective Neuroscience 🔌 Neural Circuits 🛋️ Patient Narratives 🧬 Evolutionary Biology

Being There

by Andy Clark • 1996

The mind extends past the skull, looping through body and world. Brains alone cannot think.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Mind 🔗 Connectionism

Being There 95%

The mind extends past the skull, looping through body and world. Brains alone cannot think.

by Andy Clark 1996

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217 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Mind 🔗 Connectionism

Connections

by Karl Deisseroth • 2021

What mental illness reveals about the brain, from the psychiatrist who invented optogenetics.

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🧠 Clinical Neuroscience 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology 📋 Patient Case Studies 💗 Emotion And The Brain 💭 Consciousness Studies

Connections 95%

What mental illness reveals about the brain, from the psychiatrist who invented optogenetics.

by Karl Deisseroth 2021

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285 ratings

🧠 Clinical Neuroscience 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology 📋 Patient Case Studies 💗 Emotion And The Brain 💭 Consciousness Studies

The Future of the Mind

by Michio Kaku • 2014

Thoughts decoded. Memories rewritten. Consciousness uploaded. The brain is becoming hackable.

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The Future of the Mind 95%

Thoughts decoded. Memories rewritten. Consciousness uploaded. The brain is becoming hackable.

by Michio Kaku 2014

4.08

16k+ ratings

I Am a Strange Loop

by Douglas R. Hofstadter • 2007

The self is an abstract loop the brain builds, and Gödel's proof shows how.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Consciousness Studies 🌊 Emergence 🪞 Theory Of Self

I Am a Strange Loop 95%

The self is an abstract loop the brain builds, and Gödel's proof shows how.

by Douglas R. Hofstadter 2007

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9k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Consciousness Studies 🌊 Emergence 🪞 Theory Of Self

The Consciousness Instinct

by Michael S. Gazzaniga • 2018

Consciousness isn't one network but a modular biological instinct, and silicon won't replicate it.

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839

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Modular Brain 🧬 Evolution Of Mind 🌱 Emergent Consciousness

The Consciousness Instinct 95%

Consciousness isn't one network but a modular biological instinct, and silicon won't replicate it.

by Michael S. Gazzaniga 2018

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839 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Modular Brain 🧬 Evolution Of Mind 🌱 Emergent Consciousness

Altered States of Consciousness

by Marc Wittmann • 2018

Time is built from bodily signals. Change consciousness, and it stretches, shrinks, or vanishes.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies ⏱️ Time Perception 🌌 Altered States 🫁 Embodied Cognition 💓 Interoception

Altered States of Consciousness 95%

Time is built from bodily signals. Change consciousness, and it stretches, shrinks, or vanishes.

by Marc Wittmann 2018

3.74

194 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies ⏱️ Time Perception 🌌 Altered States 🫁 Embodied Cognition 💓 Interoception

NeuroLogic

by Eliezer J. Sternberg • 2016

Your brain constructs reality, rewrites memory, and confuses your inner voice for someone else's.

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🧠 Unconscious Processing 🔄 Dual Process Theory 💭 Reconstructive Memory 🏋️ Mental Rehearsal 🪞 Self And Identity

NeuroLogic 94%

Your brain constructs reality, rewrites memory, and confuses your inner voice for someone else's.

by Eliezer J. Sternberg 2016

4.26

848 ratings

🧠 Unconscious Processing 🔄 Dual Process Theory 💭 Reconstructive Memory 🏋️ Mental Rehearsal 🪞 Self And Identity

Minds, Brains and Science

by John Rogers Searle • 1984

Consciousness is biological, not computational. That is why no program will ever think.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Mind-Body Problem 🔬 Cognitive Science 🤖 Ai Skepticism 🎲 Free Will Debate

Minds, Brains and Science 94%

Consciousness is biological, not computational. That is why no program will ever think.

by John Rogers Searle 1984

3.76

626 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Mind-Body Problem 🔬 Cognitive Science 🤖 Ai Skepticism 🎲 Free Will Debate

The Embodied Mind

by Francisco J. Varela • 1991

No inner pilot exists. Your body enacts a world, and the self evaporates under sustained attention.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🤔 Phenomenology 🧘 Buddhist Philosophy 🔄 Enactive Cognition 🏛️ Philosophy Of Mind

The Embodied Mind 94%

No inner pilot exists. Your body enacts a world, and the self evaporates under sustained attention.

by Francisco J. Varela 1991

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🤔 Phenomenology 🧘 Buddhist Philosophy 🔄 Enactive Cognition 🏛️ Philosophy Of Mind

A User's Guide to the Brain

by John J. Ratey • 2001

Perception, movement, and social contact continuously rewire your brain. A guide for taking control.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🏃 Embodied Cognition 👁️ Perception And Consciousness 🔍 Attention Management 💾 Memory Formation

A User's Guide to the Brain 94%

Perception, movement, and social contact continuously rewire your brain. A guide for taking control.

by John J. Ratey 2001

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Neuroplasticity 🏃 Embodied Cognition 👁️ Perception And Consciousness 🔍 Attention Management 💾 Memory Formation

The Mind and the Brain

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz • 2001

Conscious thought can change brain circuitry. A psychiatrist argues quantum physics is the reason.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🪐 Consciousness Studies 🧘 Mindfulness Therapy ⚛️ Quantum Mind Theory 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind

The Mind and the Brain 94%

Conscious thought can change brain circuitry. A psychiatrist argues quantum physics is the reason.

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz 2001

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🪐 Consciousness Studies 🧘 Mindfulness Therapy ⚛️ Quantum Mind Theory 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind

The Master and His Emissary

by Iain McGilchrist • 2009

Your brain's two halves build opposing worlds. Western civilization chose the wrong one.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Consciousness Studies 👁️ Embodied Cognition 📖 Phenomenology 🌍 Cultural Evolution

The Master and His Emissary 94%

Your brain's two halves build opposing worlds. Western civilization chose the wrong one.

by Iain McGilchrist 2009

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4k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Consciousness Studies 👁️ Embodied Cognition 📖 Phenomenology 🌍 Cultural Evolution

The Language Instinct

by Steven Pinker • 1994

Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.

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📝 Generative Linguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Psycholinguistics

The Language Instinct 94%

Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.

by Steven Pinker 1994

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📝 Generative Linguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Psycholinguistics

The Disordered Mind

by Eric R. Kandel • 2018

Brain disorders are a natural experiment: they show what each neural circuit actually does.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🏥 Neuropsychiatry 🩺 Brain Disorders 🔄 Neural Plasticity 💭 Consciousness Studies

The Disordered Mind 94%

Brain disorders are a natural experiment: they show what each neural circuit actually does.

by Eric R. Kandel 2018

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🏥 Neuropsychiatry 🩺 Brain Disorders 🔄 Neural Plasticity 💭 Consciousness Studies

The Matter With Things

by Iain McGilchrist • 2021

Your left hemisphere built the modern world. It is also why everything is falling apart.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Attention And Perception 🌌 Beyond Materialism 🔄 Process Philosophy

The Matter With Things 94%

Your left hemisphere built the modern world. It is also why everything is falling apart.

by Iain McGilchrist 2021

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567 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Attention And Perception 🌌 Beyond Materialism 🔄 Process Philosophy

Cognitive Neuroscience

by Richard Passingham • 2016

Seeing is not believing: your brain builds reality from parallel streams, then fact-checks itself.

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🧠 Brain Science 📚 Cognitive Psychology 🧪 Neuropsychology 👁️ Perception Science 💾 Memory Systems

Cognitive Neuroscience 94%

Seeing is not believing: your brain builds reality from parallel streams, then fact-checks itself.

by Richard Passingham 2016

3.71

318 ratings

🧠 Brain Science 📚 Cognitive Psychology 🧪 Neuropsychology 👁️ Perception Science 💾 Memory Systems

How Your Brain Works

by New Scientist • 2017

86 billion neurons construct your reality, rewrite your past, and scrub themselves clean each night.

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🧠 Neuroscience Primers 👁️ Perception And Reality 💭 Memory Systems 🌌 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity

How Your Brain Works 94%

86 billion neurons construct your reality, rewrite your past, and scrub themselves clean each night.

by New Scientist 2017

3.92

353 ratings

🧠 Neuroscience Primers 👁️ Perception And Reality 💭 Memory Systems 🌌 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity

I am Not a Brain

by Markus Gabriel • 2017

Neuroscience keeps looking for the self inside the skull. The real thing lives between people.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📜 German Idealism 🔓 Free Will Debate 👥 Social Self 🔗 Mind-Body Problem

I am Not a Brain 94%

Neuroscience keeps looking for the self inside the skull. The real thing lives between people.

by Markus Gabriel 2017

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233 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📜 German Idealism 🔓 Free Will Debate 👥 Social Self 🔗 Mind-Body Problem

La vida secreta de la mente

by Mariano Sigman • 2015

Decisions begin unconsciously before you're aware; consciousness just invents the story afterward.

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🧠 Unconscious Processing 🔄 Brain Plasticity 👶 Infant Cognition 😴 Sleep And Memory 🎓 Neuroeducation

La vida secreta de la mente 94%

Decisions begin unconsciously before you're aware; consciousness just invents the story afterward.

by Mariano Sigman 2015

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🧠 Unconscious Processing 🔄 Brain Plasticity 👶 Infant Cognition 😴 Sleep And Memory 🎓 Neuroeducation

How to Create a Mind

by Ray Kurzweil • 2012

The brain runs on 300 million pattern recognizers. Copy that hierarchy, and human-level AI is next.

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🧠 Cognitive Science 💻 Computational Neuroscience 🔍 Pattern Recognition 🧬 Brain-Inspired Ai

How to Create a Mind 94%

The brain runs on 300 million pattern recognizers. Copy that hierarchy, and human-level AI is next.

by Ray Kurzweil 2012

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8k+ ratings

🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🧠 Cognitive Science 💻 Computational Neuroscience 🔍 Pattern Recognition 🧬 Brain-Inspired Ai

Pictures of the Mind

by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald • 2009

The self is a brain process you can train: neuroplasticity and meditation science reveal how.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🧘 Consciousness Studies 💓 Affective Neuroscience 😊 Science Of Happiness 💊 Addiction Neuroscience

Pictures of the Mind 94%

The self is a brain process you can train: neuroplasticity and meditation science reveal how.

by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald 2009

3.76

894 ratings

🧠 Neuroplasticity 🧘 Consciousness Studies 💓 Affective Neuroscience 😊 Science Of Happiness 💊 Addiction Neuroscience

The Strange Order of Things

by António Damásio • 2017

Feelings, not reason, built human culture. The drive for homeostasis began in single cells.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Emotion 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

The Strange Order of Things 94%

Feelings, not reason, built human culture. The drive for homeostasis began in single cells.

by António Damásio 2017

3.75

3k+ ratings

🧠 Neuroscience Of Emotion 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

Rationality in Action

by John Rogers Searle • 2003

Between reason and action is a gap no cause can close. Free will lives there.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔓 Free Will Debate 💭 Consciousness Studies ⚖️ Practical Reasoning 📝 Analytic Philosophy

Rationality in Action 94%

Between reason and action is a gap no cause can close. Free will lives there.

by John Rogers Searle 2003

3.67

64 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔓 Free Will Debate 💭 Consciousness Studies ⚖️ Practical Reasoning 📝 Analytic Philosophy

Gödel, Escher, Bach

by Douglas R. Hofstadter • 1979

Gödel, Escher, Bach: three ways of drawing a loop, and one key to consciousness.

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🧠 Cognitive Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Consciousness Studies 🤖 Artificial Intelligence ➗ Mathematical Logic

Gödel, Escher, Bach 94%

Gödel, Escher, Bach: three ways of drawing a loop, and one key to consciousness.

by Douglas R. Hofstadter 1979

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53k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Consciousness Studies 🤖 Artificial Intelligence ➗ Mathematical Logic

The New Science of the Mind

by Mark Rowlands • 2010

The mind extends through body and tools because it reveals rather than calculates.

3.69

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Cognition 📜 Phenomenology

The New Science of the Mind 94%

The mind extends through body and tools because it reveals rather than calculates.

by Mark Rowlands 2010

3.69

45 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Cognition 📜 Phenomenology

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes • 1976

Before introspection, humans heard gods. A theory of history explaining our search for certainty.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Consciousness Evolution 🧩 Neurological Models 🔗 Metaphor Theory 🧐 Heterodox Psychology

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Summary

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind 94%

Before introspection, humans heard gods. A theory of history explaining our search for certainty.

by Julian Jaynes 1976

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6k+ ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Consciousness Evolution 🧩 Neurological Models 🔗 Metaphor Theory 🧐 Heterodox Psychology

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