The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
By: Julian Jaynes
4.26
Format: 491 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human…
Want to Read $ 11.99"No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad . Good and evil do not exist."-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad . Good and evil do not exist."-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time."-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time."-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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1. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
4.03
Format: 527 pages, Hardcover
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonis… read more
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"At the end of 2006, people concerned with the “Cat"-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity…."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2. In Search of Lost Time
By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
4.34
Format: 4211 pages, Paperback
On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more
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"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
3. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
By: Richard Dawkins , Daniel C. Dennett
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
People commonly view evolution as a process of competition between individuals--known as "survival … read more
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4. The Problem of the Puer Aeternus (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 87)
By: Marie-Louise von Franz
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
The Latin term puer aeternus means eternal youth. In Jungian psychology it is used to describe a ce… read more
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5. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
By: Julian Jaynes
4.26
Format: 491 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human… read more
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"No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad . Good and evil do not exist."-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a s…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to occur, consciousness is not necessary. The very reason w…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"We sometimes think, and even like to think, that the two greatest exertions that have influenced mankind, religion and science, have always been historical enemies, intriguing us in opposite directio…"-Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
6. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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7. Man and His Symbols
By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman
4.19
Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more
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"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
8. Consciousness Explained
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." … read more
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"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Ho…"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
9. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and p… read more
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10. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
By: Thomas Metzinger
3.71
Format: 101 pages,
We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or ar… read more
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11. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
By: Fritjof Capra
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. T… read more
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12. The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume--the third in the series that… read more
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13. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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14. The Man Without Qualities
By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike
4.19
Format: 1774 pages, Paperback
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more
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"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
15. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more
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"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
16. Metaphors We Live By
By: George Lakoff , Mark Johnson
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
The now-classic Metaphors We Live Bychanged our understanding of metaphor and its role in language … read more
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18. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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19. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay , Victor Eremita
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
'What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?' Eith… read more
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20. Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes
By: None
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Does consciousness inevitably arise in any sufficiently complex brain? Although widely accepted, th… read more
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21. Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind
By: Jamie Wheal
3.99
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A peak-performance expert maps out a revolutionary new practice—Hedonic Engineering—that combines t… read more
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"Left to our own devices, we regress under stress. Put simply, tribalism is destiny. Humanism is optional"-Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind
"Cynicism is so deep on all sides that it's become incredibly tempting to conclude that the whole system needs to come down. To break this stalemate we might have to give up our search for common grou…"-Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind
"Prometheans run a distinct risk of getting their matches confiscated by the priests, all in the name of public safety. All it would take is an attorney general with a prosecutor's distrust of the wei…"-Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind
"It's entirely possible that the Great Sorting Hat at the End of Time won't give a damn which side we thought we were on - Rebel or stormtrooper, Red Pill or Blue - but only our intentions. Which flag…"-Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind
