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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
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9.6 |
Fourteen years after its original publication this book remains as astounding and controversial as ever. At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution, but came into being as recen
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Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
Rudy Rucker
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Current:
9.6 |
In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Here Rucker acquaint
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A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Sylvia Nasar
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Current:
9.5 |
In 1950, 21-year-old Princeton graduate student John Nash formulated a theorem that enabled the arcane field of game theory to become an important influence in modern economics and political science. He seemed poised for even greater success, but colleag
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The Society of Mind
Marvin L. Minsky
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Current:
9.4 |
For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of t
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Edward O. Wilson, Edmund O. Wilson
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Current:
9.3 |
The biologist Edward O. Wilson is a rare scientist: having over a long career made signal contributions to population genetics, evolutionary biology, entomology, and ethology, he has also steeped himself in philosophy, the humanities, and the social scie
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Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology
Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes (Translator)
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9.2 |
Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable t
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
Terrence W. Deacon
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9.2 |
Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species begins with a question posed by a 7-year-old child: Why can't animals talk? Or, as Deacon puts it, if animals have simpler brains, why can't they develop a simpler form of language to go with them? Thus begin
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A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future
Charles Van Doren
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Current:
9.1 |
A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet tota
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Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
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9.1 |
In Figments of Reality, mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen's thesis (or schtick) is that human minds are produced by complicity between human brains and culture. In their earlier book
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Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing
Joe McMoneagle
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Current:
9.0 |
From one of the actual participants in the U.S. government's remote-viewing program comes the definitive work on remote viewing. Avoiding the snare of becoming a neo-Nostradamian prophecy, Mind Trek is a nuts-and-bolts approach to an ability that
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Cosmic Consciousness
Richard Maurice Bucke
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Current:
8.9 |
Absolutely the best book on the nature of cosmic consciousness (divine illumination). Who it manifests with, when, where, how and why. Detailed information on and a study of numerous people who have been blessed with this divine insight.
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Consciousness Explained
Paul Weiner(Illustrator), Daniel Clement Dennett
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Current:
8.9 |
Consciousness is notoriously difficult to explain. On one hand, there are facts about conscious experience--the way clarinets sound, the way lemonade tastes--that we know subjectively, from the inside. On the other hand, such facts are not readily accomm
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The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
Robert Ornstein
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8.8 |
Based on his life's research, the author of the bestseller The Psychology of Consciousness provides a provocative look at the evolution of the mind. He explains that we are not rational but adaptive, and that it is Darwin, not Freud, who is the central s
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Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing
Joe McMoneagle
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Current:
8.8 |
From one of the actual participants in the U.S. government's remote-viewing program comes the definitive work on remote viewing. Avoiding the snare of becoming a neo-Nostradamian prophecy, Mind Trek is a nuts-and-bolts approach to an ability that
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Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neale Donald Walsch
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8.7 |
Historically speaking, new worldviews have been responsible for causing major social transformations, says futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard. It occurred in the Renaissance when the idea of progress through knowledge was born. It happened in the United State
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The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres
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8.7 |
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Consciousness
(1632) The quality or state of being aware; the highest level of mental life.