From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.77
Format: 477 pages, Paperback
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists ha…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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1. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
By: David J. Chalmers
4.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and … read more
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"It may be that some are unwilling to accept the possibility of conscious thermostats simply because we understand thermostats too well. We know everything about their processing, and there seems no r…"-David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
"Positive arguments for the natural possibility of absent qualia have not been as prevalent as arguments for inverted qualia, but they have been made. The most detailed presentation of these arguments…"-David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
2. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
By: Susan Blackmore
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The last great mystery for science," consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness… read more
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"إننا أحيانًا نعتقد أننا لا نقوم بشيء في حين أننا نقوم به بالفعل ص 94"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"إذا كان هناك سؤال لا يمكن الإجابة عنه، فربما من الأفضل أن نتوقَّفَ عن طرحه ص 119"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"نقلاً عن ليبيت: على الرغم من أنه ليسَتْ لدينا إرادة حرة للفعل، فإن لدينا إرادةً حرة لعدم الفعل ص 91"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
"في التأمُّل، هناك دائمًا خطران: أن تُصاب بالنعاس وتنام، أو أن تنفعل بسبب الأفكار المشوشة أو الشعور بعدم الراحة ص 114"-Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
3. The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
By: Bertrand Russell , Karl Marx , George Orwell , Richard Dawkins , Mark Twain , H.P. Lovecraft , Thomas Hardy , Omar Khayyám , Ian McEwan , Penn Jillette , George Eliot , John Updike , Carl Sagan , Christopher Hitchens , Sigmund Freud , A.C. Grayling , Joseph Conrad , David Hume , Daniel C. Dennett , Charles Darwin , Sam Harris , Albert Einstein , Salman Rushdie , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Emma Goldman , Steven Weinberg , Anatole France , John Stuart Mill , Martin Gardner , Victor J. Stenger , James Boswell , H.L. Mencken , Thomas Hobbes , Leslie Stephen , Philip Larkin , Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Baruch Spinoza , Lucretius , A.J. Ayer , Carl van Doren , John Betjeman , Ibn Warraq , Michael Shermer , Chapman Cohen , J.L. Mackie , Charles Templeton , Elizabeth S. Anderson
4.03
Format: 525 pages, Paperback
«Οι οπαδοί των νεράιδων δεν χτυπάνε την πόρτα σου για να σε προσηλυτίσουν. Δεν απαιτούν να διδάσκετ… read more
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"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you pro…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"By now the valley of the shadow of doubt was overrunneth with skepticism, so God became angry, so angry that God lost His temper and cursed the first humans, telling them to go forth and multiply the…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation but the wrong culprit. Human sacr…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so mod…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
4. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise
By: John Robinson Pierce
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intri… read more
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5. Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
By: Lee Smolin , Henry Reich
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of ti… read more
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6. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
By: Nick Lane
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed,… read more
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7. The Mismeasure of Man
By: Stephen Jay Gould
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. How smart are you? If that question do… read more
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8. The Open Society and Its Enemies
By: None
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes … read more
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9. Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
By: Jim Al-Khalili , Johnjoe McFadden
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller and an Amazon Best Science Book of 2015 Life is the most extraordinary phe… read more
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10. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
By: Richard Dawkins , Lalla Ward
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the univers… read more
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12. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different fro… read more
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13. 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
14. 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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15. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
By: Steven Pinker
4.20
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more
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"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
16. The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.99
Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the … read more
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"The great cultural project... may very well be to rescue what we have of the art and aesthetic of religion while discarding the supernatural."-Christopher Hitchens, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
17. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.77
Format: 477 pages, Paperback
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists ha… read more
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- neuroscience
- nonfiction
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"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"We Homo sapiens are the only species (so far) with richly cumulative culture, and the key ingredient of culture that makes this possible is language."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"Don’t be afraid of a little metaphor; it won’t bite you, but you should always make sure you know how to cash it in for unvarnished fact when you feel the urge."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
18. 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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19. Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
By: António Damásio
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investig… read more
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"In no way can interoception be regarded as a plain perceptual representation of the body inside the nervous system. There is, rather, an extensive commingling of signals. By now we should be clear ab…"-António Damásio, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
20. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
By: Simon Baron-Cohen
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autis… read more
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21. Making Sense
By: Sam Harris
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'WAKING UP' and 'THE END OF FAITH', AN ADAPTATION OF HIS WILDLY POP… read more
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"Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"The fascist says, "It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ …"-Sam Harris, Making Sense
