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…
Want to Read $ 9.99"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
"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
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1. Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
By: Bernardo Kastrup
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed mate… read more
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2. The Holographic Universe
By: Michael Talbot
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space wit… read more
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4. 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
5. 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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6. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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7. 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
8. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
9. 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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10. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
By: Mark Solms
4.26
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how conscious… read more
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"What you experience all the time is fluctuating pulses of feeling in response to your movement through the world, as you check whether everything is as you expected to find it - and as you try to clo…"-Mark Solms, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
11. 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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12. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.80
Format: 1500 pages, Hardcover
Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? A… read more
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"On the left hemisphere of the brain: 'Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Cynicism appears to be a coping strategy by the cognitively less gifted to avoid being duped by others."-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"To Heraclitus it was the logos; to Lao Tzu the tao; to Confucius lǐ; in Hinduism Brahman, and to the Vedic tradition Ṛta; in Zen ri; o Arabic peoples, since pre-Islamic times, Allah; to Hebrews YHWH.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
"Wittgenstein wrote: 'To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.' And he continued: 'To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end o…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
13. Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
By: Neil Theise
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave—from c… read more
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14. Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
By: Philip Goff
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radical… read more
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15. Why? The Purpose of the Universe
By: Philip Goff
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, West… read more
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16. Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
By: Robert Plomin
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what mak… read more
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17. The Simulation Hypothesis
By: Rizwan Virk
3.75
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
The Simulation Hypothesis, by best-selling author, renowned MIT computer scientist and Silicon Vall… read more
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18. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
By: David J. Chalmers
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original wor… read more
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19. Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe
By: Bernardo Kastrup
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
More than an insightful psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung was the twentieth century's greatest articul… read more
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20. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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21. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
By: Luis Elizondo
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more
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