Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past
10 best books like Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past (Daniel L. Schacter): The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World, Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World, The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Soul of the Samurai: Modern Translations of Three Classic Works of Zen Bushido, The Mind's New Science: A History Of The Cognitive Revolution, Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought, Acts of Meaning
| Author | Christof Koch |
| ISBN | 0974707708 |
About the AuthorBorn in 1956 in the American Midwest, Christof Koch grew up in Holland, Germany, Canada, and Morocco, where he graduated from the Lycée Descartes in 1974. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Tübingen in Germany and was awarded his Ph.D. in biophysics in 1982. He...
| Author | Farhad Manjoo |
| ISBN | 0470050101 |
Why has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they’ve been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin and propaganda seem...
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World
| Author | Carl Zimmer |
| ISBN | 0743272056 |
In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century...
| Author | James D. Miller |
| ISBN | 1936661659 |
In Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times bestseller The Singularity is Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a likely future utterly different than anything we can imagine. The Singularity is triggered by the tremendous growth of human and computing intelligence that is an almost...
| Author | Jahan Ramazani |
| ISBN | 0393977919 |
Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry now available in two paperback volumes...
| Author | Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks |
| ISBN | 0521778220 |
This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the...
| Author | Thomas Cleary |
| ISBN | 4805312912 |
Soul of the Samurai contains modern translations of three classic works of Zen & Bushido.
In Soul of the Samurai, bestselling author and respected translator Thomas Cleary reveals the true essence of the Bushido code or Zen warrior teachings according to 17th-century Japanese samurai...
The Mind's New Science: A History Of The Cognitive Revolution
| Author | Howard Gardner |
| ISBN | 0465046355 |
Probably the best and most extensive history of cognitive science and it's evolution out of mid-20th century developments in computer science, engineering, linguistics, philosophy, social science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and psychology. Gardner follows the story in detailed...
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought
| Author | Louis A. Sass |
| ISBN | 0674541375 |
The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of authority, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this book, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the...
| Author | Jerome Bruner |
| ISBN | 0674003616 |
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor," has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can...
Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality
| Author | Martine Rothblatt |
| ISBN | 1250046637 |
Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness—simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology—becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created...
| Author | Patricia S. Churchland |
| ISBN | 0393349446 |
A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications.
What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking...
White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts: Suppression, Obsession, and the Psychology of Mental Control
| Author | Daniel M. Wegner |
| ISBN | 0898622239 |
In a series of groundbreaking experiments, Daniel M. Wegner told subjects not to think about white bears. Of course, they found it impossible to avoid thinking of the bears--just as it often seems impossible to stop thinking about forbidden foods, a painful memory, or everyday fears and worries. Synthesizing...
Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
| Author | Hans Moravec |
| ISBN | 0195136306 |
In this compelling book, Hans Moravec predicts that machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, and that by 2050, they will surpass us. But even though Moravec predicts the end of the domination by human beings, his is not a bleak vision. Far from railing against a future in which...
WOW. If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Not the first of his I've read, but the one I've paid most attention to so far in terms of re-reading sections and thinking deeply on it. If you have an interest in the evolution of human spirituality and the search for Spirit and higher consciousness, then...
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
| ISBN | 1616960701 |
Presenting the posthuman future in its wildest science-fictional imaginings and intriguing speculations, this far-reaching anthology of fiction and nonfiction traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology totally transform human reality. The featured stories and essays...
| Author | Donald D. Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0393319679 |
Hoffman explains that far from being a passive recorder of a preexisting world, the eye actively constructs every aspect of our visual experience.Visual intelligence, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman writes, is the power that people use to "construct an experience of objects out of colors, lines,...
Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
| Author | Mark Pagel |
| ISBN | 0393065871 |
A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and...
| Author | Stephanie Dowrick |
| ISBN | 0393313611 |
Intimacy and Solitude is the international bestseller that helps you enjoy closeness with others, while maintaining a firm sense of independence. Using stories from her psychotherapy practice and her own life, Stephanie Dowrick shows how intimacy begins in discovering and trusting your own...
| Author | Lev S. Vygotsky |
| ISBN | 0262720108 |
A classic of its own kind!
Reading Vygotsky elaborating on Piaget and Freud and the theory of learning and language is a treat, but not easy or quick. It immediately puts the teacher in the zone of proximal development. After all, the topic is mindbogglingly complex: how does thought relate...
| Author | Merlin Donald |
| ISBN | 0674644840 |
History is bunk, and evolution equally so. I don't mean to take away from any of the staggering advances made in genetics, but in every case the Darwinism has been ported to other sciences, tragedy has followed. The reason is a very simply fallacy that many authors of evolution-based theories don't seem...
| Author | Pierce J. Howard |
| ISBN | 1885167644 |
Whenever I would check out a book at the library and I really loved it, I had this habit of going and getting a copy for my mom. I got her this one about 20 years ago. It still sits on her shelf.
Man, this is a good book. It tells the physiological details of the human brain, what makes it work and why and...
Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction
| Author | Keith Oatley |
| ISBN | 0470974575 |
Why do we read and what happens when we do? Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.
-- Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselves
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