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." …
Want to Read $ 11.99"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"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 tell others - and ourselves - about who we are."-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 tell others - and ourselves - about who we are."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
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1. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
By: David J. Chalmers
4.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and … read more
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"It may be that some are unwilling to accept the possibility of conscious thermostats simply because we understand thermostats too well. We know everything about their processing, and there seems no r…"-David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
"Positive arguments for the natural possibility of absent qualia have not been as prevalent as arguments for inverted qualia, but they have been made. The most detailed presentation of these arguments…"-David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
2. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
4.18
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o… read more
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3. Gödel's Proof
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter , Ernest Nagel , James Roy Newman
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Princi… read more
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4. 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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5. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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6. 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
7. 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
8. 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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9. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
By: Richard Dawkins
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchm… read more
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10. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
By: António Damásio
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotio… read more
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11. 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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12. How the Mind Works
By: Steven Pinker
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, d… read more
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13. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
By: Sam Harris
3.99
Format: 512 pages,
Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion… read more
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15. The Emperor's New Mind Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics
By: Martin Gardner , Roger Penrose
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing ev… read more
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16. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
By: David Deutsch
3.50
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most funda… read more
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17. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
By: Albert Einstein , Robert W. Lawson , Nigel Calder
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According t… read more
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18. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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19. 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
20. 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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21. Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
By: David Farley
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code In Modern Software Engineering, … read more
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