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The Physics Of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind And The Meaning Of Life

10 best books like The Physics Of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind And The Meaning Of Life (Evan Harris Walker): Agent Running in the Field, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures, Infected, In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension, The Essential Rumi, Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters, The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Agent Running in the Field
AuthorJohn le Carré
ISBN1984878875
A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré

Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down...
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
AuthorCarl Zimmer
For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Now award-winning writer Carl Zimmer takes us on a fantastic voyage into the secret parasite universe we actually live in but haven't recognized. He reveals not only that parasites are the most...
Infected
AuthorScott Sigler
ISBN0307406105
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.

Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country...
In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension
AuthorDan Falk
Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience. Yet as familiar as it is, time is also deeply mysterious. We cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch it. Yet we do feel it?or at least we think we feel...
The Essential Rumi
AuthorRumi
ISBN0062509594
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.

Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range...
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
AuthorMatt Ridley
ISBN0060894083
I wish I could give this book 6 stars! It's really fantastic, and I want to recommend it to EVERYONE, but in my heart I know the tone would bore some of my friends... I suggest thinking of the author/narrator as a cool guy you'd be friends with telling you all this information, instead of a nerdy/haughty *scientist*...
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
AuthorPeter Vronsky
ISBN0425196402
The comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide.

In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century...
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
AuthorFritjof Capra
ISBN1570625190
After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since the book's first publication, discusses criticisms...
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
AuthorCarl Sagan
ISBN1594201072
On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysicist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God.

Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable...
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
AuthorNick Bostrom
ISBN0199678111
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains.

If machine brains one day come to surpass human...
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
AuthorAlbert-László Barabási
ISBN0452284392
A cocktail party? A terrorist cell? Ancient bacteria? An international conglomerate?

All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s foremost expert in the new science of networks and author of Bursts, takes us on an...
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
AuthorWerner Heisenberg
ISBN0141182156
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum...
Baby Beluga
AuthorRaffi Cavoukian
ISBN0517709775
The Internet has a small-but-healthy movement called, "The Wholesome Meme". It's the idea that things we share, like, spread, upvote, twit, and post don't all have to be sarcastic, cutting, political, negative, or an ironic callback. It's okay for things to be "wholesome" again: kind, simple, sincere,...
Worlds in Collision
AuthorImmanuel Velikovsky
With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism - based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors - shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin's theory of evolution,...
Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
AuthorErvin Laszlo
ISBN1594770425
Introduces the embracing world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and sages: an Integral Theory of Everything

• Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philosophy

• Reveals how the universe stores a record of all that is happening...
Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
AuthorPeg Dawson
ISBN1593859872
There's nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your "smart but scattered" 4- to 13-year-old might also have trouble coping with disappointment...
God and the New Physics
AuthorPaul Davies
ISBN0671528068
How did the universe begin and how will it end?
What is matter?
What is mind, and can it survive death?
What are time and space, and how do they relate to ideas about God?
Is the order of the universe the result of accident or design?
The most profound and age-old questions of existence...
Superstrings And The Search For The Theory Of Everything
AuthorF. David Peat
ISBN0349104875
Peat often repeats himself throughout this book, even repeating graphs, figures, and sentences or phrases. He could easily have just referred back to the first instance in which he mentioned a certain topic, but instead he decided to just re-explain the same topic again. This became irritating and...
Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the World of Torturers, Psychopaths, and Mass Murderers
AuthorChristopher Berry-Dee
ISBN1569756198
COMBINES HORRIFIC ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST VICIOUS MURDERS EVER COMMITTED WITH THE SHOCKING WORDS OF THE KILLERS THEMSELVES

“The bloodstains . . . that happened when I stored one of the guys upsidedown . . . it usually ran out of his nose or mouth or something . . .”
--John Wayne Gacy

“She...
Raising Hell: A Concise History of the Black Arts - and Those Who Dared to Practice Them
AuthorRobert Masello
ISBN0399522387
Here, in one spellbinding volume, is a history of the major occult arts as they have been practiced from ancient Babylon to the present day. Raising Hell weaves history with myths, quotes, anecdotes, and illustrations, to provide a vivid chronicle of the evolution of the occult arts. This definitive...
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
AuthorLisa Feldman Barrett
ISBN0544133315
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind.

Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this...
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
AuthorJames R. Hansen
ISBN0743257510
On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. In a penetrating...
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