50 Books like The Biological Mind

Descartes' Error

by António Damásio • 1994

A railroad foreman's brain injury revealed that reason depends on emotion, not pure logic.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🦵 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Body-Mind Connection 🌌 Consciousness Studies

Descartes' Error 97%

A railroad foreman's brain injury revealed that reason depends on emotion, not pure logic.

by António Damásio 1994

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🦵 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Body-Mind Connection 🌌 Consciousness Studies

The Experience Machine

by Andy Clark • 2023

Your brain guesses reality instead of recording it, and the mismatch shapes everything.

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🧠 Predictive Processing 💭 Consciousness Studies 🦾 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Distributed Cognition ❤️ Embodied Emotion

The Experience Machine 97%

Your brain guesses reality instead of recording it, and the mismatch shapes everything.

by Andy Clark 2023

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🧠 Predictive Processing 💭 Consciousness Studies 🦾 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Distributed Cognition ❤️ Embodied Emotion

Physical Intelligence

by Scott Grafton • 2020

Movement is the foundation of thought, and fatigue is your brain's way of holding you back.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Mind-Body Connection 🧬 Neuroplasticity 🥵 Fatigue And Endurance 🧭 Spatial Cognition

Physical Intelligence 96%

Movement is the foundation of thought, and fatigue is your brain's way of holding you back.

by Scott Grafton 2020

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194 ratings

🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Mind-Body Connection 🧬 Neuroplasticity 🥵 Fatigue And Endurance 🧭 Spatial Cognition

Neurociencia del cuerpo

by Nazareth Castellanos • 2022

Memory lives in your gut, perception rides on your heartbeat, and your breath rewires your brain.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Mind-Body Connection 🦠 Gut-Brain Axis 👁️ Somatic Awareness 🌬️ Breathwork

Neurociencia del cuerpo 96%

Memory lives in your gut, perception rides on your heartbeat, and your breath rewires your brain.

by Nazareth Castellanos 2022

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Mind-Body Connection 🦠 Gut-Brain Axis 👁️ Somatic Awareness 🌬️ Breathwork

Feeling & Knowing

by António Damásio • 2021

Consciousness begins in the body: feelings, not thought, build the first sense of self.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤸 Embodied Cognition ❤️ Affective Neuroscience 🧬 Brain-Body Connection 🧬 Evolution Of Mind

Feeling & Knowing 96%

Consciousness begins in the body: feelings, not thought, build the first sense of self.

by António Damásio 2021

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤸 Embodied Cognition ❤️ Affective Neuroscience 🧬 Brain-Body Connection 🧬 Evolution Of Mind

Surfing Uncertainty

by Andy Clark • 2015

Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔮 Predictive Processing 🧘 Embodied Cognition 🌱 Enactivism

Surfing Uncertainty 96%

Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.

by Andy Clark 2015

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381 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔮 Predictive Processing 🧘 Embodied Cognition 🌱 Enactivism

A User's Guide to the Brain

by John J. Ratey • 2001

Perception, movement, and social contact continuously rewire your brain. A guide for taking control.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🏃 Embodied Cognition 👁️ Perception And Consciousness 🔍 Attention Management 💾 Memory Formation

A User's Guide to the Brain 96%

Perception, movement, and social contact continuously rewire your brain. A guide for taking control.

by John J. Ratey 2001

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🏃 Embodied Cognition 👁️ Perception And Consciousness 🔍 Attention Management 💾 Memory Formation

Being You

by Anil Seth • 2020

Your brain does not read reality. It invents it. Every sensation, every self, is a guess.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🪞 Neuroscience Of Self 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception Psychology 🫀 Embodied Cognition

Being You 96%

Your brain does not read reality. It invents it. Every sensation, every self, is a guess.

by Anil Seth 2020

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🪞 Neuroscience Of Self 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Perception Psychology 🫀 Embodied Cognition

The New Science of the Mind

by Mark Rowlands • 2010

The mind extends through body and tools because it reveals rather than calculates.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Cognition 📜 Phenomenology

The New Science of the Mind 96%

The mind extends through body and tools because it reveals rather than calculates.

by Mark Rowlands 2010

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45 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Cognition 📜 Phenomenology

Great Myths of the Brain

by Christian Jarrett • 2014

10% usage, right-brain creativity, five senses: all myths. The brain behind them is far weirder.

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Great Myths of the Brain 96%

10% usage, right-brain creativity, five senses: all myths. The brain behind them is far weirder.

by Christian Jarrett 2014

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161 ratings

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own

by Sandra Blakeslee • 2007

Your brain's body maps extend into tools and space; remapping them can ease pain, deepen empathy.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🪞 Mirror Neurons 🤕 Pain Science 🧘 Body Awareness

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own 96%

Your brain's body maps extend into tools and space; remapping them can ease pain, deepen empathy.

by Sandra Blakeslee 2007

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796 ratings

🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🪞 Mirror Neurons 🤕 Pain Science 🧘 Body Awareness

The Brain and the Meaning of Life

by Paul Thagard • 2010

Mental life is brain activity, and meaning is its reward for satisfying three deep human needs.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Mind Brain Identity 🔬 Neurophilosophy 🔭 Scientific Realism 📊 Evidence-Based Thinking

The Brain and the Meaning of Life Summary

The Brain and the Meaning of Life 96%

Mental life is brain activity, and meaning is its reward for satisfying three deep human needs.

by Paul Thagard 2010

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128 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Mind Brain Identity 🔬 Neurophilosophy 🔭 Scientific Realism 📊 Evidence-Based Thinking

Being There

by Andy Clark • 1996

The mind extends past the skull, looping through body and world. Brains alone cannot think.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Mind 🔗 Connectionism

Being There 96%

The mind extends past the skull, looping through body and world. Brains alone cannot think.

by Andy Clark 1996

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217 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Mind 🔗 Connectionism

Brain-Wise

by Patricia S. Churchland • 2002

Everything we call mind is brain activity. Once philosophy accepts that, all its questions change.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Neurophilosophy 💭 Consciousness Studies ❤️ Emotion And Reason ⛓️ Free Will Debate

Brain-Wise 95%

Everything we call mind is brain activity. Once philosophy accepts that, all its questions change.

by Patricia S. Churchland 2002

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140 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Neurophilosophy 💭 Consciousness Studies ❤️ Emotion And Reason ⛓️ Free Will Debate

The Embodied Mind

by Francisco J. Varela • 1991

No inner pilot exists. Your body enacts a world, and the self evaporates under sustained attention.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🤔 Phenomenology 🧘 Buddhist Philosophy 🔄 Enactive Cognition 🏛️ Philosophy Of Mind

The Embodied Mind 95%

No inner pilot exists. Your body enacts a world, and the self evaporates under sustained attention.

by Francisco J. Varela 1991

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🤔 Phenomenology 🧘 Buddhist Philosophy 🔄 Enactive Cognition 🏛️ Philosophy Of Mind

Synaptic Self

by Joseph E. LeDoux • 2002

Your self is built from synapses: how memory, emotion, and consciousness circuits create identity.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Self 🔄 Neuroplasticity 📸 Memory And Identity 😶 Unconscious Emotion 💡 Consciousness Studies

Synaptic Self 95%

Your self is built from synapses: how memory, emotion, and consciousness circuits create identity.

by Joseph E. LeDoux 2002

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Self 🔄 Neuroplasticity 📸 Memory And Identity 😶 Unconscious Emotion 💡 Consciousness Studies

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

by Patrick House • 2022

Movement built consciousness. Nineteen scientific guesses at how the rest of your mind followed.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Predictive Processing 🏃 Embodied Cognition

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness Summary

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness 95%

Movement built consciousness. Nineteen scientific guesses at how the rest of your mind followed.

by Patrick House 2022

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774 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Predictive Processing 🏃 Embodied Cognition

Phantoms in the Brain

by V.S. Ramachandran • 1998

A missing arm can still hurt. That paradox unlocks how your brain constructs reality.

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🧠 Neuropsychology 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🏥 Neurological Disorders 💭 Consciousness Studies 🪞 The Constructed Self

Phantoms in the Brain 95%

A missing arm can still hurt. That paradox unlocks how your brain constructs reality.

by V.S. Ramachandran 1998

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🧠 Neuropsychology 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🏥 Neurological Disorders 💭 Consciousness Studies 🪞 The Constructed Self

The Extended Mind

by Annie Murphy Paul • 2021

The mind extends beyond the brain: into the body, across physical space, and between people.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔬 Cognitive Science 💓 Body Wisdom 🌿 Attention Restoration 🏃 Movement And Cognition

The Extended Mind 95%

The mind extends beyond the brain: into the body, across physical space, and between people.

by Annie Murphy Paul 2021

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔬 Cognitive Science 💓 Body Wisdom 🌿 Attention Restoration 🏃 Movement And Cognition

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks • 1985

When brains break, the self bends but doesn't vanish: clinical tales of what persists.

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🩺 Narrative Medicine 🧠 Popular Neuroscience 🤝 Clinical Empathy 🧩 Brain And Identity 📋 Case Histories

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Summary

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 95%

When brains break, the self bends but doesn't vanish: clinical tales of what persists.

by Oliver Sacks 1985

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🩺 Narrative Medicine 🧠 Popular Neuroscience 🤝 Clinical Empathy 🧩 Brain And Identity 📋 Case Histories

Self Comes to Mind

by António Damásio • 2010

The self is a process built from body maps: three layers that turn mind into experience.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🦴 Embodied Cognition 💓 Emotion And Reason

Self Comes to Mind 95%

The self is a process built from body maps: three layers that turn mind into experience.

by António Damásio 2010

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🦴 Embodied Cognition 💓 Emotion And Reason

The Master and His Emissary

by Iain McGilchrist • 2009

Your brain's two halves build opposing worlds. Western civilization chose the wrong one.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Consciousness Studies 👁️ Embodied Cognition 📖 Phenomenology 🌍 Cultural Evolution

The Master and His Emissary 95%

Your brain's two halves build opposing worlds. Western civilization chose the wrong one.

by Iain McGilchrist 2009

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Consciousness Studies 👁️ Embodied Cognition 📖 Phenomenology 🌍 Cultural Evolution

Altered States of Consciousness

by Marc Wittmann • 2018

Time is built from bodily signals. Change consciousness, and it stretches, shrinks, or vanishes.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies ⏱️ Time Perception 🌌 Altered States 🫁 Embodied Cognition 💓 Interoception

Altered States of Consciousness 95%

Time is built from bodily signals. Change consciousness, and it stretches, shrinks, or vanishes.

by Marc Wittmann 2018

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194 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies ⏱️ Time Perception 🌌 Altered States 🫁 Embodied Cognition 💓 Interoception

Wider Than the Sky

by Gerald M. Edelman • 2004

The mind is not a program. Consciousness is built by neural selection, not by running code.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience 🎨 Qualia Debate 🦴 Embodied Cognition

Wider Than the Sky 95%

The mind is not a program. Consciousness is built by neural selection, not by running code.

by Gerald M. Edelman 2004

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421 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience 🎨 Qualia Debate 🦴 Embodied Cognition

Looking for Spinoza

by António Damásio • 2001

A neuroscientist discovers a 17th-century philosopher already mapped the biology of joy and sorrow.

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🏛️ Neurophilosophy 🤝 Social Emotions ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧬 Embodied Cognition

Looking for Spinoza 95%

A neuroscientist discovers a 17th-century philosopher already mapped the biology of joy and sorrow.

by António Damásio 2001

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🏛️ Neurophilosophy 🤝 Social Emotions ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧬 Embodied Cognition

The Mind and the Brain

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz • 2001

Conscious thought can change brain circuitry. A psychiatrist argues quantum physics is the reason.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🪐 Consciousness Studies 🧘 Mindfulness Therapy ⚛️ Quantum Mind Theory 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind

The Mind and the Brain 95%

Conscious thought can change brain circuitry. A psychiatrist argues quantum physics is the reason.

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz 2001

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🪐 Consciousness Studies 🧘 Mindfulness Therapy ⚛️ Quantum Mind Theory 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind

The Embodied Mind

by Thomas R. Verny • 2021

Your heart thinks. Your gut remembers. Memory and identity are distributed across your whole body.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🌿 Integrative Medicine 🦠 Gut-Brain Connection 🧬 Epigenetics 🧪 Cellular Memory

The Embodied Mind 95%

Your heart thinks. Your gut remembers. Memory and identity are distributed across your whole body.

by Thomas R. Verny 2021

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148 ratings

🧠 Embodied Cognition 🌿 Integrative Medicine 🦠 Gut-Brain Connection 🧬 Epigenetics 🧪 Cellular Memory

Livewired

by David Eagleman • 2014

Half a brain runs a full life because idle neural real estate gets claimed immediately.

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🧠 Neuroscience 🧩 Neuroplasticity 👁️ Sensory Perception 🧬 Neural Darwinism 🦾 Body Schema

Livewired 95%

Half a brain runs a full life because idle neural real estate gets claimed immediately.

by David Eagleman 2014

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🧠 Neuroscience 🧩 Neuroplasticity 👁️ Sensory Perception 🧬 Neural Darwinism 🦾 Body Schema

The Disordered Mind

by Eric R. Kandel • 2018

Brain disorders are a natural experiment: they show what each neural circuit actually does.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🏥 Neuropsychiatry 🩺 Brain Disorders 🔄 Neural Plasticity 💭 Consciousness Studies

The Disordered Mind 95%

Brain disorders are a natural experiment: they show what each neural circuit actually does.

by Eric R. Kandel 2018

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🏥 Neuropsychiatry 🩺 Brain Disorders 🔄 Neural Plasticity 💭 Consciousness Studies

The Tell-Tale Brain

by V.S. Ramachandran • 2010

Mirror neurons, cells that fire whether you act or watch someone else, are what made us human.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🪞 Mirror Neurons 🎨 Neuroaesthetics 🧍 Embodied Cognition 🌈 Synesthesia

The Tell-Tale Brain 95%

Mirror neurons, cells that fire whether you act or watch someone else, are what made us human.

by V.S. Ramachandran 2010

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🪞 Mirror Neurons 🎨 Neuroaesthetics 🧍 Embodied Cognition 🌈 Synesthesia

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live

by Missy Vineyard • 2007

Posture is fixed not by effort, but by stopping the habits you cannot feel.

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🏛️ Alexander Technique 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 🔄 Unconscious Habits 🗺️ Body Awareness 😨 Fear And The Body

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live Summary

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live 95%

Posture is fixed not by effort, but by stopping the habits you cannot feel.

by Missy Vineyard 2007

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211 ratings

🏛️ Alexander Technique 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 🔄 Unconscious Habits 🗺️ Body Awareness 😨 Fear And The Body

Buddhism

by Damien Keown • 1996

Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?

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📖 Introductory Buddhism ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy 🛕 Theravada Buddhism 🪷 Mahayana Buddhism 🧘 Meditation Practice

Buddhism 95%

Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?

by Damien Keown 1996

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3k+ ratings

📖 Introductory Buddhism ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy 🛕 Theravada Buddhism 🪷 Mahayana Buddhism 🧘 Meditation Practice

Connections

by Karl Deisseroth • 2021

What mental illness reveals about the brain, from the psychiatrist who invented optogenetics.

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🧠 Clinical Neuroscience 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology 📋 Patient Case Studies 💗 Emotion And The Brain 💭 Consciousness Studies

Connections 95%

What mental illness reveals about the brain, from the psychiatrist who invented optogenetics.

by Karl Deisseroth 2021

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285 ratings

🧠 Clinical Neuroscience 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology 📋 Patient Case Studies 💗 Emotion And The Brain 💭 Consciousness Studies

Then I Am Myself the World

by Christof Koch • 2024

No matter how smart AI becomes, it will never be sentient. Consciousness is not computable.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🪞 Subjectivity And Self 🍄 Psychedelic Science 🔗 Mind-Body Problem

Then I Am Myself the World 95%

No matter how smart AI becomes, it will never be sentient. Consciousness is not computable.

by Christof Koch 2024

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388 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🪞 Subjectivity And Self 🍄 Psychedelic Science 🔗 Mind-Body Problem

The Strange Order of Things

by António Damásio • 2017

Feelings, not reason, built human culture. The drive for homeostasis began in single cells.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Emotion 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

The Strange Order of Things 95%

Feelings, not reason, built human culture. The drive for homeostasis began in single cells.

by António Damásio 2017

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3k+ ratings

🧠 Neuroscience Of Emotion 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

Projections

by Karl Deisseroth • 2021

How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.

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🧠 Biological Psychiatry 💔 Affective Neuroscience 🔌 Neural Circuits 🛋️ Patient Narratives 🧬 Evolutionary Biology

Projections 94%

How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.

by Karl Deisseroth 2021

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Biological Psychiatry 💔 Affective Neuroscience 🔌 Neural Circuits 🛋️ Patient Narratives 🧬 Evolutionary Biology

The True Creator of Everything

by Miguel Nicolelis • 2020

The human brain does not discover reality; it builds it, from physics to gods.

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🧠 Reality Construction 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🧮 Limits Of Computation 👥 Social Brains

The True Creator of Everything 94%

The human brain does not discover reality; it builds it, from physics to gods.

by Miguel Nicolelis 2020

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163 ratings

🧠 Reality Construction 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🧮 Limits Of Computation 👥 Social Brains

The Brain That Changes Itself

by Norman Doidge • 2007

Paralyzed arm moved after 45 years. Phantom pain vanished in a mirror. The brain rewires itself.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 💪 Stroke Recovery 🤕 Pain Science 🧘 Mental Practice 🧓 Aging Brain

The Brain That Changes Itself 94%

Paralyzed arm moved after 45 years. Phantom pain vanished in a mirror. The brain rewires itself.

by Norman Doidge 2007

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40k+ ratings

🧠 Neuroplasticity 💪 Stroke Recovery 🤕 Pain Science 🧘 Mental Practice 🧓 Aging Brain

Sensation

by Thalma Lobel • 2014

Why a warm cup makes people kind, a heavy clipboard feels important, and red sabotages performance.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 👋 Sensory Influence 🎯 Priming Effects 🪞 Metaphor Embodiment 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Sensation 94%

Why a warm cup makes people kind, a heavy clipboard feels important, and red sabotages performance.

by Thalma Lobel 2014

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384 ratings

🧠 Embodied Cognition 👋 Sensory Influence 🎯 Priming Effects 🪞 Metaphor Embodiment 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

An Alchemy of Mind

by Diane Ackerman • 2004

A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.

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🧠 Neuroscience 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🪞 Memory And Identity

An Alchemy of Mind 94%

A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.

by Diane Ackerman 2004

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Neuroscience 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🪞 Memory And Identity

La vida secreta de la mente

by Mariano Sigman • 2015

Decisions begin unconsciously before you're aware; consciousness just invents the story afterward.

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🧠 Unconscious Processing 🔄 Brain Plasticity 👶 Infant Cognition 😴 Sleep And Memory 🎓 Neuroeducation

La vida secreta de la mente 94%

Decisions begin unconsciously before you're aware; consciousness just invents the story afterward.

by Mariano Sigman 2015

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3k+ ratings

🧠 Unconscious Processing 🔄 Brain Plasticity 👶 Infant Cognition 😴 Sleep And Memory 🎓 Neuroeducation

The Neuroscience of You

by Chantel Prat • 2022

Your brain isn't like anyone else's. Neuroscience finally has a field guide for that.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🌈 Neurodiversity 🔄 Brain Plasticity ⚗️ Brain Chemistry ↔️ Left Brain Right Brain

The Neuroscience of You 94%

Your brain isn't like anyone else's. Neuroscience finally has a field guide for that.

by Chantel Prat 2022

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🌈 Neurodiversity 🔄 Brain Plasticity ⚗️ Brain Chemistry ↔️ Left Brain Right Brain

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

by Sam Kean • 2014

History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.

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🧠 Neuroscience 📜 History Of Science 🏥 Medical History 📖 Clinical Tales 🧩 Neurological Disorders

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Summary

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons 94%

History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.

by Sam Kean 2014

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14k+ ratings

🧠 Neuroscience 📜 History Of Science 🏥 Medical History 📖 Clinical Tales 🧩 Neurological Disorders

I am Not a Brain

by Markus Gabriel • 2017

Neuroscience keeps looking for the self inside the skull. The real thing lives between people.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📜 German Idealism 🔓 Free Will Debate 👥 Social Self 🔗 Mind-Body Problem

I am Not a Brain 94%

Neuroscience keeps looking for the self inside the skull. The real thing lives between people.

by Markus Gabriel 2017

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233 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📜 German Idealism 🔓 Free Will Debate 👥 Social Self 🔗 Mind-Body Problem

The New Mind Readers

by Russell A. Poldrack • 2018

Brain scans map blood flow, not thought. A pioneer reveals what fMRI can and cannot do.

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🧠 Brain Imaging 🔄 Neural Plasticity ⚖️ Neuroethics 🧬 Mental Illness Neurobiology 📊 Statistical Thinking

The New Mind Readers 94%

Brain scans map blood flow, not thought. A pioneer reveals what fMRI can and cannot do.

by Russell A. Poldrack 2018

3.93

168 ratings

🧠 Brain Imaging 🔄 Neural Plasticity ⚖️ Neuroethics 🧬 Mental Illness Neurobiology 📊 Statistical Thinking

Pictures of the Mind

by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald • 2009

The self is a brain process you can train: neuroplasticity and meditation science reveal how.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🧘 Consciousness Studies 💓 Affective Neuroscience 😊 Science Of Happiness 💊 Addiction Neuroscience

Pictures of the Mind 94%

The self is a brain process you can train: neuroplasticity and meditation science reveal how.

by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald 2009

3.76

894 ratings

🧠 Neuroplasticity 🧘 Consciousness Studies 💓 Affective Neuroscience 😊 Science Of Happiness 💊 Addiction Neuroscience

The Brain's Way of Healing

by Norman Doidge • 2015

Chronic pain, Parkinson's, brain trauma: the brain can heal itself. The methods don't require drugs.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🩹 Neurological Healing 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🔥 Chronic Pain 🏥 Brain Rehabilitation

The Brain's Way of Healing 94%

Chronic pain, Parkinson's, brain trauma: the brain can heal itself. The methods don't require drugs.

by Norman Doidge 2015

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🩹 Neurological Healing 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🔥 Chronic Pain 🏥 Brain Rehabilitation

The Balanced Brain

by Camilla Nord • 2024

Your brain predicts your mood before you feel it, and often gets it wrong.

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🧘 Mind-Body Connection 😌 Affective Science 🔮 Predictive Processing 🎯 Motivation And Reward 💊 Placebo Effects

The Balanced Brain 94%

Your brain predicts your mood before you feel it, and often gets it wrong.

by Camilla Nord 2024

3.93

484 ratings

🧘 Mind-Body Connection 😌 Affective Science 🔮 Predictive Processing 🎯 Motivation And Reward 💊 Placebo Effects

The Brain

by Marco Magrini • 2017

Your brain rewires daily: the operating guide biology class never gave you.

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🧠 Brain Science 🔄 Neuroplasticity 💪 Brain Health 📚 Memory And Learning 👴 Cognitive Aging

The Brain 94%

Your brain rewires daily: the operating guide biology class never gave you.

by Marco Magrini 2017

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705 ratings

🧠 Brain Science 🔄 Neuroplasticity 💪 Brain Health 📚 Memory And Learning 👴 Cognitive Aging

The Root of Thought

by Andrew Koob • 2009

Neurons are ten percent of your brain. The overlooked ninety percent may control thought itself.

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Neurons are ten percent of your brain. The overlooked ninety percent may control thought itself.

by Andrew Koob 2009

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🧠 Neuroscience History 🔄 Brain Plasticity 💭 Memory Science 🔬 Scientific Paradigms 🏥 Brain Disorders

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