Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
By: Michael S.A. Graziano
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to conscio…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Arguably, science is the gradual process by which the cognitive parts of our brains discover the inaccuracies in our deeper, evolutionarily built-in models of the world."-Michael S.A. Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
"Arguably, science is the gradual process by which the cognitive parts of our brains discover the inaccuracies in our deeper, evolutionarily built-in models of the world."-Michael S.A. Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
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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. The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in… read more
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"Life is short, and certainty never happens."-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries."-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it’s a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It’s a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments …"-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in g…"-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
3. The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions
By: Alex Rosenberg
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Hardcover
We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philos… read more
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4. On Revolution
By: Hannah Arendt
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war… read more
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5. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
By: Steven Pinker
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and… read more
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6. 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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7. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more
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8. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
9. My Inventions
By: Nikola Tesla
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
This important title is the autobiography of Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla appropriately titled his wo… read more
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10. 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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11. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
12. 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
13. 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
14. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By: Stuart Russell
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more
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"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
15. 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
16. 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
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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"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 Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
By: Christof Koch
3.92
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Koch describes how the theory explains many facts about the neurology of consciousness and how it h… read more
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"To bring home the centrality of consciousness to life, consider a devil’s bargain in which you gain unlimited wealth at the expense of your conscious experiences. You get all the money you want but m…"-Christof Koch, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
"Mind-as-software is an unspoken background assumption that needs no justification. It is as obvious as the existence of the devil used to be. For what is the alternative to mind-as-software? A soul? …"-Christof Koch, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
"Their [personal digital assistants] siren voices are living proof of our times - that our mind is software, running on the computer that is our brain. Consciousness is just a couple of clever hack aw…"-Christof Koch, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
"Purkinje cells are among the most elaborate of all neurons; the cerebellum maps the body and outside space onto its tens of billions of neurons. Yet none of this seems sufficient to generate consciou…"-Christof Koch, The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
19. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
By: Annaka Harris
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fas… read more
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20. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
21. Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
By: Michael S.A. Graziano
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to conscio… read more
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"Arguably, science is the gradual process by which the cognitive parts of our brains discover the inaccuracies in our deeper, evolutionarily built-in models of the world."-Michael S.A. Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
