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Consciousness Books
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Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,677 ratings — published 1991
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,834 ratings — published 2020
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,976 ratings — published 1976
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,864 ratings — published 2016
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,486 ratings — published 1996
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.27 — 84,249 ratings — published 2018
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,377 ratings — published 2003
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,807 ratings — published 2019
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.91 — 75,503 ratings — published 1956
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,499 ratings — published 1979
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,655 ratings — published 2007
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,965 ratings — published 1981
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,754 ratings — published
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,965 ratings — published 2014
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,242 ratings — published 2012
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,268 ratings — published 2009
Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,012 ratings — published 2005
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,094 ratings — published 2021
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,069 ratings — published 1999
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,353 ratings — published 2019
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,251 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.15 — 449,232 ratings — published 1997
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,163 ratings — published 1991
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.90 — 51,077 ratings — published 2014
The Origins and History of Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,683 ratings — published 1949
A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.02 — 488 ratings — published 2000
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,646 ratings — published 1989
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,716 ratings — published 2017
The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.93 — 543 ratings — published
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.13 — 581 ratings — published 2004
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.20 — 142,971 ratings — published 2007
Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,206 ratings — published 1996
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,057 ratings — published 1997
DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,541 ratings — published 2000
The River of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,177 ratings — published 2017
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.17 — 219,225 ratings — published 2005
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.94 — 59,755 ratings — published 2015
Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,212 ratings — published 1977
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,181 ratings — published 1994
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.19 — 516,553 ratings — published 1997
Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.09 — 475 ratings — published 2014
Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.12 — 214 ratings — published 2003
Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.89 — 943 ratings — published 2012
The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,440 ratings — published 2005
Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.77 — 930 ratings — published 1994
Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,553 ratings — published 1985
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,801 ratings — published 2009
Consciousness and the Social Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as consciousness)
avg rating 4.14 — 499 ratings — published 2013
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,010 ratings — published 2012
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as consciousness)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,961 ratings — published 1994
“I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness- a real thorough-going illness.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
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