Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
By: Nicholas Humphrey
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's l…
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1. Consciousness Explained
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." … read more
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"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Ho…"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
2. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
3. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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4. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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5. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
6. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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7. I've Been Thinking
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.76
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
"How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is a… read more
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8. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
9. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more
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"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
10. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
11. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
12. Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
By: Nicholas Humphrey
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's l… read more
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13. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
By: Dan Levitt
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambiti… read more
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14. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
By: Sally Adee
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more
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15. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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16. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
By: Neil Theise
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more
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17. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more
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18. Why? The Purpose of the Universe
By: Philip Goff
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, West… read more
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19. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
By: Peter Turchin
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more
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20. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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21. The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
By: Lawrence M. Krauss
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lawrence Krauss explores the greatest unanswered questions at the forefront of science today, and l… read more
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