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A paradigm-shifting exploration that pulls the mind out of the skull and scatters it into the body and the surrounding world. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Beyond the Brain.
- intellectually expansive
- grounded
- curious
- illuminating
- 01
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith
A philosophical plunge into the ocean's depths to encounter an intelligence as alien as it is earthly.
- 02
How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
A paradigm-shifting journey into the brain that dismantles everything you thought you knew about human feeling.
- 03
Metazoa
Peter Godfrey-Smith
An immersive, philosophical dive into the ocean's depths to trace the evolutionary awakening of the animal mind.
- 04
The secret of our success
Joseph Patrick Henrich
A paradigm-shifting exploration that dismantles the myth of the lone genius to reveal the true superpower of our species: our collective brain.
- 05
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Daniel C. Dennett
A sweeping, cerebral exploration of how mindless biological processes gave rise to the breathtaking complexity of human consciousness.
- 06
Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
A brisk, mind-expanding tour through the gray blob between your ears that shatters popular myths about human behavior.
- 07
The Ape that Understood the Universe
Steve Stewart-Williams
An expansive, intellectually stimulating exploration of how a biological primate developed the capacity to ponder its own existence.
- 08
The World Beyond Your Head
Matthew B. Crawford
A philosophically rigorous and deeply tactile defense of paying attention to the physical world in an era of digital fragmentation.
- 09
The elephant in the brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
A cheerful but ruthless dismantling of every noble motive you thought you had.
- 10
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Henry Cabot Lodge (Jr.)
A warm, scientifically grounded exploration that finds the roots of human goodness not in the heavens, but in the earth and our primate cousins.
- 11
Consciousness explained
Daniel C. Dennett · 1991
A witty, relentless dismantling of the ghost in the machine that will leave you questioning who is actually doing the reading.
- 12
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
A rigorous, chilling thought experiment that scales the heights of human ingenuity only to stare into the abyss of our potential obsolescence.
