The Mind is Flat
By: Nick Chater
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works - and why it could change your life 'An astonishi…
Want to Read $ 14.99"No amount of therapy, dream analysis, word association, experiment or brain-scanning can recover a person’s ‘true motives’, not because they are difficult to find, but because there is nothing to find. It is not hard to plumb our mental depths because they are so deep and so murky, but because there are no mental depths to plumb."-Nick Chater, The Mind is Flat
"No amount of therapy, dream analysis, word association, experiment or brain-scanning can recover a person’s ‘true motives’, not because they are difficult to find, but because there is nothing to find. It is not hard to plumb our mental depths because they are so deep and so murky, but because there are no mental depths to plumb."-Nick Chater, The Mind is Flat
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1. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
By: Matt Ridley
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queenfrom Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep r… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
2. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
By: George Berkeley , 贝克莱 , 关文运
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
George Berkeley was an Irish Philosopher who is best known for putting forward the idea of subjecti… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
3. 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. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
By: Susan David
4.22
Format: None pages,
The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Re… read more
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5. The Cyberiad
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel , Daniel Mróz
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. … read more
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6. Three Tales
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse
4.03
Format: 325 pages,
First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more
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7. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
By: Stephen Grosz
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Echoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanaly… read more
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8. The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood
By: Emeran Mayer
4.20
Format: None pages, ebook
Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practica… read more
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9. 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
- brain
- 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
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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- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- brain
- nonfiction
- popular science
- science
11. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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- nonfiction
- artificial intelligence
- science
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
12. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
13. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By
By: David Mitchell
3.68
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
David Mitchell’s 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
15. 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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- nonfiction
- artificial intelligence
- science
16. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
By: Joseph Henrich
4.12
Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientis… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"The assembly of the innovation engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution becomes easier to see once we recognize how the psychology of premodern Europeans had been quietly evolving in the backg…"-Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
17. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
By: James E. Lovelock
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, … read more
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- artificial intelligence
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- popular science
- science
"The experience of watching your garden grow gives you some idea of how future AI systems will feel when observing human life."-James E. Lovelock, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
"The pioneer and would-be spacefarer Elon Musk said he would like to die on Mars, though not on impact. Martian conditions suggest death on impact might be preferable."-James E. Lovelock, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
"Even where we live, on the edge of the sea and far from any waste-disposal site, large vans come to collect the paper and other waste that is part of modern life. I have often wondered if the interne…"-James E. Lovelock, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
18. The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
By: Arik Kershenbaum
3.96
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE We are unprepared for the greatest discov… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"One of the most fundamental rules of natural selection, on Earth and across the universe, is that there is always a cost-benefit trade-off. Improving your abilities in one field must reduce your capa…"-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
"Whenever there is a conflict of interest (or a potential conflict of interest) between two animals making their own decisions to maximize their own fitness, then an evolutionary game is in play. Each…"-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
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19. ガリレオの苦悩 [Garireo no Kunō] (ガリレオ, #4)
By: Keigo Higashino
3.79
Format: 339 pages, Tankōbon
湯川の頭脳に挑戦してくる犯人たち。科学を殺人の道具に使う人間は許さない―絶対に。 read more
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20. Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness
By: Stephen M. Fleming
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The surprising science of the human mind's greatest power: introspectionIt happens to everyone: You… read more
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- social science
- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
21. The Mind is Flat
By: Nick Chater
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works - and why it could change your life 'An astonishi… read more
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- artificial intelligence
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- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- brain
- nonfiction
- popular science
- science
"No amount of therapy, dream analysis, word association, experiment or brain-scanning can recover a person’s ‘true motives’, not because they are difficult to find, but because there is nothing to fin…"-Nick Chater, The Mind is Flat
