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Books like Consciousness
A dizzying, rigorous dismantling of everything you thought you knew about your own mind and sense of self. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Consciousness.
- mind-expanding
- contemplative
- existential
- curious
- 01
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.
- 02
Conscious
Annaka Harris
A brief, mind-bending plunge into the deepest mystery of the universe: the fact that you are experiencing it at all.
- 03
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
Julian Jaynes
A sweeping, deeply unsettling, and awe-inspiring journey into the ancient mind that will forever change how you hear your own internal monologue.
- 04
The brain
David Eagleman
A mind-expanding journey into the dark, silent fortress of the skull to discover how biological matter constructs our entire reality.
- 05
The ego tunnel
Thomas Metzinger · 2009
A radical, mind-bending philosophical journey that dismantles the illusion of the self.
- 06
How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
A paradigm-shifting journey into the brain that dismantles everything you thought you knew about human feeling.
- 07
The user illusion
Norretranders, Tor
A mind-bending exploration that dismantles the illusion of conscious control to reveal the vast, hidden intelligence of the human mind.
- 08
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.
- 09
The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks
A warm, expansive journey through the mysteries of the mind, memory, and the natural world, guided by a relentlessly curious intellect.
- 10
Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks
A compassionate and wondrous journey into the mind's capacity to conjure realities that aren't there.
- 11
Incognito
David Eagleman
A mind-bending tour through the hidden neurological machinery that actually runs your life, proving you are not the captain of your own ship.
- 12
The self-aware universe
Amit Goswami · 1993
A mind-bending exploration that bridges quantum physics and ancient mysticism to argue that consciousness creates reality.
