The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
By: Thomas Metzinger
3.71
Format: 101 pages,
We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or ar…
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1. Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
By: Dick Swaab
3.90
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Het verhaal van je leven is het verhaal van je brein. Dat begint in de baarmoeder, waar de hersenen… read more
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"Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were precede…"-Dick Swaab, Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
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. Mindfulness in Plain English
By: Henepola Gunaratana
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
With his distinctive clarity and wit, "Bhante G" takes us step by step through the myths, realities… read more
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4. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
5. 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
6. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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7. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
By: Sam Harris
3.90
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and relig… read more
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"Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love"-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
8. 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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9. 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
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11. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
By: Thomas Metzinger
3.71
Format: 101 pages,
We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or ar… read more
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12. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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13. The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering
By: Bhikkhu Bodhi
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This book offers a clear, concise account of the Eightfold Path prescribed to uproot and eliminate … read more
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14. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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15. 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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16. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacheris a publishing first… read more
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17. Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
By: Nathaniel Branden
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Nathaniel Branden's book is the culmination of a lifetime of clinical practice and study, already h… read more
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19. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
By: Robert Wright
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among th… read more
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20. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more
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21. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
By: Charles Seife
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more
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22. 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
23. 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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24. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
By: Donald D. Hoffman
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more
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"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
25. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By: Stuart Russell
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more
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"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
26. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
By: Gad Saad
3.94
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more
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"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
27. Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self
By: Jay L. Garfield
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a … read more
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28. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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29. The Last Messiah
By: Peter Wessel Zapffe
4.32
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human … read more
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"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture pas…"-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has graspe…"-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
30. 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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31. Making Sense
By: Sam Harris
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'WAKING UP' and 'THE END OF FAITH', AN ADAPTATION OF HIS WILDLY POP… read more
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"Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"The fascist says, "It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ …"-Sam Harris, Making Sense
