6 best-selling brain books like The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind by Michael S. Gazzaniga

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The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"The father of cognitive neuroscience" illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain …

If you liked the brain plot in The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind by Michael S. Gazzaniga , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

By: Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how e… read more

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"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

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2. 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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  • biology
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  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
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3. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

By: Brian Greene

4.13

Format: 569 pages, Paperback

The fabric of the cosmos read more

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"life"

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"наша история прошлого часто лишь информирует о наших переживаниях в настоящем."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"полная скорость движения любого объекта в пространстве и во времени всегда в точности равна скорости света."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

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4. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

By: Michael Pollan

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOM Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1) by Hannu Rajaniemi

5. The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)

By: Hannu Rajaniemi

4.16

Format: None pages,

Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him … read more

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6. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more

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"Gullibility kills."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

7. 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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8. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

By: William B. Irvine

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discove… read more

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9. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most … read more

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10. 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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"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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11. 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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12. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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13. 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

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14. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

By: Michael Lewis

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more

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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

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15. 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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16. The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

By: Steven Mithen

4.14

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the langua… read more

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17. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

By: Jeremy Desilva

4.33

Format: 352 pages, ebook

In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seem… read more

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"...Bipedalism in an overly aggressive ape with purely selfish tendencies and a low tolerance for other group member would have been a recipe for extinction."

-Jeremy Desilva, First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

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18. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

By: Douglas Rushkoff

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more

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"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"

-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

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19. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

By: Patrick House

3.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the funct… read more

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20. The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"The father of cognitive neuroscience" illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain … read more

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21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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15 must-read audiobook books like The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind by Michael S. Gazzaniga

Transform Your Habits

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Brian Greene

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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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

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

Chris Miller

4.44

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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

4.37

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