Voyage to the bottom of the brain

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Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics)
1.  Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics) by Rene Descartes
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  "Where it all began"
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author)
2.  Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R Hofstadter
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  "A book that changed many lives"
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Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science)
3.  Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
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  "Starting to get serious"
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The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science (Second Edition)
4.  The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science (Second Edition) by Philip Johnson-Laird
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  "The obsession bites"
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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)
5.  The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science) by Sir Roger Penrose
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  "A tantalising dead-end, and the best popular tour of physics I know"
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Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World (Masterminds)
6.  Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World (Masterminds) by John R. Searle
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  "A philosophical challenge"
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind)
7.  The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind) by David J. Chalmers
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  "Sleeves rolled up now"
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The Philosophy of Mind (Dimensions of Philosophy)
8.  The Philosophy of Mind (Dimensions of Philosophy) by Jaegwon Kim
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  "A stocktaking of the philosophical issues"
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The Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination
9.  The Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M. Edelman
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  "First view from the bottom"
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Penguin Science)
10.  Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
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  "The evolutionary angle"
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The Prehistory Of The Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science
11.  The Prehistory Of The Mind: A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science by Prof Steven Mithen
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  "Anthropology"
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The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness
12.  The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness by Christopher Wills
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  "And genetics, not bad for 10p from a village fete"
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How We Reason
13.  How We Reason by Philip Johnson-Laird
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  "The nuts and bolts of intelligence from my intellectual hero"
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The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines
14.  The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines by Igor Aleksander
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  "Consciousness is an architecture, not an algorithm"
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The Origins of Meaning: Language in the Light of Evolution (Studies in the Evolution of Language)
15.  The Origins of Meaning: Language in the Light of Evolution (Studies in the Evolution of Language) by James R. Hurford
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  "The linguistic view; when and how did meaning begin?"
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Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (**)
16.  Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (**) by Mark F. Bear
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  "Time to get icky"
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Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers
17.  Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers by Rodney Cotterill
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  "Neuroscience for grownups"
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On Intelligence
18.  On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
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  "Could prove a key text for the 21st Century"
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From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language (Bradford Books)
19.  From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language (Bradford Books) by Jerome A Feldman
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  "Cognitive linguistics"
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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
20.  The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness by Max Velmans
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  "The big, big picture"
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Philosophy of Mind and Cognition: An Introduction
21.  Philosophy of Mind and Cognition: An Introduction by David Braddon-Mitchell
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  "Complememt to Kim above"
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Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science
22.  Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science by Andy Clark
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  "Etremely lucid account of plausible cognitive architectures"
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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
23.  The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
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  "Metzinger's architecture of human consciousness for dummies"
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Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (Bradford Books)
24.  Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (Bradford Books) by Thomas Metzinger
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  "Metzinger's meticulous dissection of human phenomenology"
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