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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 20, 2017 12:09:05 GMT
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Post by dougb on Sept 20, 2017 12:12:07 GMT
Wot, no Tao of Pooh?
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 20, 2017 12:46:32 GMT
Yikes, horrible list in my opinion. I guess they're trying to target more general readers, but if anyone is seriously interested in the subject, they need to dive into more serious philosophical literature about consciousness. There's some of that on the Guardian list, but the primary mainstream phil representative is Dennett, and I'm not a fan of his work on this topic--in fact, I think his views, and his manner of explaining them, are a mess.
Not that I agree with the following, either, but it's kind of ridiculous to give a list of books on consciousness and not have anything on it by David Chalmers, John Searle, Jaegwon Kim, etc.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 20, 2017 18:11:20 GMT
...for me, it is "How The Mind Works" by Steven Pinker...
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Post by darknessfish on Sept 21, 2017 8:34:05 GMT
...for me, it is "How The Mind Works" by Steven Pinker... This is indeed superb. As is most of his output. The original article is a bit odd to mention VS Ramachandran's book, Phantoms in the Brain. As the article says, "not especially a book about consciousness". Brilliant, but more about how the brain copes, or can be trained to cope, with serious physical alterations to the body (amputated limbs, etc).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 13:41:07 GMT
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