20 best-selling nonfiction books like The Experience Machine by Andy Clark

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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 …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Experience Machine by Andy Clark , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

By: Lisa Feldman Barrett

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more

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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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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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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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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: William Egginton

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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  • artificial intelligence
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
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6. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • audiobook
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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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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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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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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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

By: Kevin J. Mitchell

3.89

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how … read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.00

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."

-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

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15. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • artificial intelligence
  • audiobook
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16. The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

By: Erik Hoel

3.68

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revoluti… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

By: Mark Solms

4.26

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how conscious… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What you experience all the time is fluctuating pulses of feeling in response to your movement through the world, as you check whether everything is as you expected to find it - and as you try to clo…"

-Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

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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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  • science
  • theory
  • artificial intelligence
  • academic
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise

19. 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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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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20. 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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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

By: Christof Koch

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world’s leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness d… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science

18 Best audiobook books like The Experience Machine by Andy Clark

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

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8 must-read neuroscience books like Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey

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Consciousness Explained

Daniel C. Dennett

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

Donald D. Hoffman

3.86

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