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Consciousness
Consciousness is subjective experience or awareness or wakefulness or the executive control system of the mind. It is an umbrella term that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena. Although humans realize what everyday experiences are, consciousness refuses to be defined, philosophers note (e.g...
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The Doors of Perception
The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline. Mescaline is the principle agent of the psychedelic cactus peyote, which has been used in American religious ceremonies for thousands of years....
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- 1954
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray. Its central point is that intelligence is a better predictor of...
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- Sep 1994
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002). The book is a history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic...
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- 1981
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- 955742
Consciousness Explained
Consciousness Explained (published 1991) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain.
The book puts forward a "multiple...
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- 1991
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Metamagical Themas
Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles written for Scientific American during the early 1980s by Douglas Hofstadter, and published together as a book in 1985 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-04566-9).
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The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind is a book and theory of natural intelligence as written and developed by Marvin Minsky.
In a step-by-step process, Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence which is built layer by layer from the interactions of simple...
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- 1986
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The Dragons of Eden
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a Pulitzer prize winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan. In it, he combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a well...
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- 1977
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Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy (subtitled In which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated) is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The French translation was made by the...
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Phenomenology of Spirit
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is one of G.W.F. Hegel's most important philosophical works. It is translated as The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind due to the dual meaning in the German word Geist. The book's working title,...
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The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind (1949) is a book by the philosopher Gilbert Ryle. In it, he describes what he saw as a "fundamental mistake" made by Descartes' dualism, which underlies much of western philosophy. In the work, Ryle coined the phrase, "the dogma...
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by Steven Pinker arguing against tabula rasa models of the social sciences. Pinker argues that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological...
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- 2002
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
The Walls Came Tumbling Down is a film script written by author Robert Anton Wilson, first published in book form in 1997.
The introduction of the book includes Wilson's thoughts abouts many things, including UFOs, the Magna Carta, the IRA and...
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The Jew of Linz
The Jew of Linz (1998) is a controversial book by Australian writer Kimberley Cornish. It alleges that Ludwig Wittgenstein, later a renowned philosopher, as a schoolboy was acquainted with and had a profound impact on Adolf Hitler, later leader of...
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Figments of Reality
Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind (1997) is a book about the evolution of the intelligent and conscious human mind by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart.
In this book Cohen and Stewart give their ideas on how the...
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- 1997
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I Am a Strange Loop
I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach.
Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how Gödel, Escher, Bach,...
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- Mar 26, 2007
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Blindsight
Blindsight is a science fiction novel by Peter Watts, published in 2006. On 29 March 2007, it was nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Novel category.
Eighty years in the future, Earth becomes aware of an alien presence when hundreds of micro...
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- 2006 ,
- Oct 17, 2006
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- Oct 3, 2006
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- 186521
The Emotion Machine
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Conscious Acts of Creation
Conscious Acts of Creation is a 2001 book by William Tiller , Walter Dibble and Michael Kohane. It deals with the power of consciousness to directly effect the physical world, via Quantum observer interfaces. The book lists scientific experiment s...
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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- 2002
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Last Child in the Woods
Last Child in the Woods is a book by Richard Louv.
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- 2005
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How we think
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The only dance there is
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Journey of awakening
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Grace and grit
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Eye to eye
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The Atman project
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The essential Ken Wilber
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No boundary
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Kosmic Consciousness
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Never forget a name or face
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Cognition in the wild
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Imaginary Landscape
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Coming into being
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Water and Dreams
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Finding Water
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The vein of gold
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Supplies
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How to avoid making art
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Walking in this world
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How to be idle
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The Creative Process
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The cerebral code
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The cerebral symphony
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How Brains Think
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The pregnant virgin
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The natural mind
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Make the most of your mind
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