10 must-read philosophy books like Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior by Thomas Parr

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Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

By: Thomas Parr

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cogniti…

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1. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By: Ed Yong

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

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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  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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3. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Audio CD

How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science

4. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more

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5. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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6. Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca , Robin Campbell

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more

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7. 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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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
"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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8. 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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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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10. 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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  • nonfiction
  • science
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11. A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

By: Michael Muthukrishna

3.99

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and societ… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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12. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: 5 pages, ebook

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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13. 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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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • neuroscience
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  • science
"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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14. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By: Walter Isaacson

4.29

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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15. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

By: Nicole Perlroth

4.34

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more

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  • science
"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"

-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

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16. What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

By: Stephen Wolfram

3.91

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of wr… read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • psychology
  • philosophy
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18. Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

By: Thomas Parr

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cogniti… read more

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19. How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

By: Joseph Jebelli

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving. We’ve come a lo… read more

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20. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

By: Christof Koch

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world’s leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness d… read more

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17 must-read nonfiction books like Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior by Thomas Parr

Transform Your Habits

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

4.18

Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

Daniel C. Dennett

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

None

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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Transform Your Habits

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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