18 best-selling science books like Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by António Damásio

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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…

"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 about the origin of feelings. Feelings arise in the interior of organisms, in the depth of viscera and fluids where the chemistry responsible for life in all its aspects reigns supreme. I am talking about the operations of the endocrine and immune and circulatory systems, in charge of metabolism and defense."

-António Damásio, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

If you liked the science plot in Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by António Damásio , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Kingdom of Speech

By: Tom Wolfe

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. Reasons and Persons

By: Derek Parfit

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morali… read more

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3. 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
  • biology
  • evolution
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • 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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4. 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
  • biology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • audiobook
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5. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

By: Michio Kaku

4.10

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth… read more

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  • audiobook
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • science
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6. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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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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  • audiobook
  • science
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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9. 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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  • audiobook
  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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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10. 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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  • science
  • biology
  • evolution
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • audiobook
"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

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11. 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
  • biology
  • evolution
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • audiobook
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12. The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

By: Peter Burke

3.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leona… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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13. Neurociencia del cuerpo

By: Nazareth Castellanos

4.32

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

La neurociencia vive hoy inmersa en una revolución con fuertes implicaciones clínicas, sociales y p… read more

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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep

By: Antonio Zadra

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exci… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
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  • audiobook
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15. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

By: Brian Greene

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of … read more

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  • science
  • psychology
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  • popular science
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"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, e…"

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

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16. 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
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • audiobook
  • science
  • biology
  • evolution
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • self help
"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

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18. Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By: Frank Wilczek

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ Fundamentals  might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes … read more

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  • philosophy
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  • popular science
  • science
"The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together."

-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

"Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is…"

-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

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19. Le labyrinthe des égarés: L'Occident et ses adversaires

By: Amin Maalouf

4.28

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Une guerre dévastatrice vient d’éclater au cœur de l’Europe, qui ravive les pires traumatismes du p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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20. Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

By: Philip Goff

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radical… read more

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  • biology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

By: Randolph M. Nesse

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to… read more

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  • self help
"Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"Selection shaped our brains and bodies to maximize reproduction at enormous costs to human happiness."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"Eating disorders are not caused by abnormal genes; they are caused by normal genes interacting with abnormal environments."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

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4.43

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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4.25

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Anil Seth

4.10

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4.14

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