12 must-read psychology books like Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos by Ogi Ogas

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Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

By: Ogi Ogas

4.00

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

Two neuroscientists reveal why consciousness exists and how it works by examining eighteen increasi…

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1. 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

2. Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

By: Daniel C. Dennett

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of th… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science

3. The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy

By: Carlo Rovelli

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Marvelous. . . . A wonderful book."--Humana.Mente "Rovelli is the dream author to conduct us on th… 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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  • 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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5. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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6. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

By: Sean Carroll

4.07

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

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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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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Curiosity bred competence."

-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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8. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

By: Thomas Hertog

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"

-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

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9. There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, Carlo Rovelli fo… read more

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"I don’t like to thank God: I like to wake in the morning, look at the sea and thank the wind, the waves, the sky, the fragrance of plants, the life that allows me to exist, the sun that rises."

-Carlo Rovelli, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

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10. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

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  • history
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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11. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

3.92

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more

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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

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12. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

By: Katie Mack

4.26

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look—in th… read more

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"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"You may have heard that "we are made of stardust" (or "star stuff" if you're Sagan), and this is absolutely true if we measure by mass. All the heavier elements in your body—oxygen, carbon, nitrogen,…"

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

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13. 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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  • science
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14. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

By: Tom Beaujour

4.07

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more

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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

By: Ogi Ogas

4.00

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

Two neuroscientists reveal why consciousness exists and how it works by examining eighteen increasi… read more

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  • neuroscience
  • brain
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  • audiobook
Cover of Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better by Craig J. Bryan

20. Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better

By: Craig J. Bryan

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

An examination of how suicide prevention efforts largely fail due to the mistaken assumption that g… read more

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"The things that reduce the symptoms of mental illness probably are not the same things that reduce the probability of suicidal behaviors. Unfortunately we don’t know which active ingredients of suici…"

-Craig J. Bryan, Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better

"Today the causes of suicide are similarly unknown, but evidence from multiple sources suggests that certain types of treatments and interventions can reduce suicidal behaviors better than status quo …"

-Craig J. Bryan, Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better

"If for example you are diagnosed with depression, then your clinician might prescribe therapy to reduce your depression and or recommend anti-depressant medication. As we have discussed previously th…"

-Craig J. Bryan, Rethinking Suicide: Why Prevention Fails, and How We Can Do Better

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21. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

By: Sara Imari Walker

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

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16 must-read audiobook books like Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos by Ogi Ogas

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Sean Carroll

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

4.37

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

Transform Your Habits

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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