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A sweeping, deeply unsettling, and awe-inspiring journey into the ancient mind that will forever change how you hear your own internal monologue. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
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Consciousness
Susan Blackmore · 2003
A dizzying, rigorous dismantling of everything you thought you knew about your own mind and sense of self.
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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.
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The prehistory of the mind
Steven J. Mithen · 1996
An intellectual expedition into the deep past to uncover how early humans learned to think, speak, and create.
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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.
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The evolution of God
Wright, Robert
A sweeping, intellectually rigorous journey through human history that seeks the hidden evolutionary logic behind our search for the divine.
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The ego tunnel
Thomas Metzinger · 2009
A radical, mind-bending philosophical journey that dismantles the illusion of the self.
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How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
A paradigm-shifting journey into the brain that dismantles everything you thought you knew about human feeling.
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The Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan · 1977
A poetic, mind-expanding journey into the deep evolutionary history of human consciousness.
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Conscious
Annaka Harris
A brief, mind-bending plunge into the deepest mystery of the universe: the fact that you are experiencing it at all.
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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.
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The society of mind
Voyager Company · 1986
A playful, mind-bending puzzle box that dismantles the illusion of the self to reveal the hidden machinery of thought.
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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.
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