Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
By: Grace Lindsay
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For …
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1. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Until the late 1980s it was believed that consciousness could not be investigated by objective expe… read more
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"Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language."-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
"I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe."-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
"Introspection makes our conscious motives and strategies transparent to us, while we have no sure means of deciphering them in others. Yet we never genuinely know our true selves. We remain largely i…"-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
2. 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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4. 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
5. 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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6. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
By: Steven H. Strogatz
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more
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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
7. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By: Brian Christian
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more
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"Curiosity bred competence."-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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9. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
10. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
By: Kevin Simler
3.98
Format: 408 pages, ebook
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed … read more
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"In Debt, the anthropologist David Graeber tells the story of Tei Reinga, a Maori villager and “notorious glutton"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-s…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
"The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is o…"-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
11. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
By: Jeff Hawkins
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more
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"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
12. 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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"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
13. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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14. 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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15. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain ba… read more
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"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"Several emerging companies, still in their infancy, hope to increase the speed of brain communication to the outside world by writing and reading neural data rapidly by means of direct plug-ins. The …"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
16. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
By: Melanie Mitchell
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more
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"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
17. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more
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"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
18. Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
By: Grace Lindsay
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For … read more
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19. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
By: David J. Chalmers
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original wor… read more
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20. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical sys… read more
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21. The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
By: Matthew Cobb
4.13
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why -- despite technological ad… read more
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