Books We Read
Introductory / Mass-Market Publications:
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil
Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
Francis Crick
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
The Computer and the Brain, 2nd Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)
John von Neumann
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain : The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books)
Paul W. Glimcher
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Antonio R. Damasio
Evolving Brains (Scientific American Library)
John Allman
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
Antonio R. Damasio
Hooking Up
Tom Wolfe
An Introduction to Natural Computation (Complex Adaptive Systems)
Dana H. Ballard
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Steven Johnson
The Mind's Past
Michael S. Gazzaniga
The Neuroscience of Social Interactions: Decoding, Influencing, and Imitating the Actions of Others
Chris Frith and Daniel Wolpert, Editors
On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee
Pattern on the Stone (Science Masters)
Daniel Hillis
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
V. S. Ramachandran
The Private Life of the Brain
Susan Greenfield
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
Website: www.questforconsciousness.com
Christof Koch
The Rediscovery of the Mind (Representation and Mind)
John R. Searle
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (Paperback)
Timothy D. Wilson
The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
Terrence Deacon
More Advanced Publications:
The Computational Brain (Computational Neuroscience)
Patricia Churchland and Terrence J. Sejnowski
Electric Fields of the Brain: The Neurophysics of EEG (Second Edition)
Paul L. Nunez and Ramesh Srinivasan
Independent Component Analysis - Theory and Applications
Te-Won Lee
Principles of Neural Science
Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessell
The Principles of Psychology (1890)
William James
Rhythms of the Brain
György Buzsáki
Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code (Computational Neuroscience)
Fred Rieke, David Warland, Rob deRuytervanSteveninck and William Bialek
Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems
Peter Dayan, L. F. Abbott
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Steven Pinker
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