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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.04 — 253,167 ratings — published 1985
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,163 ratings — published 2007
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,825 ratings — published 2012
An Anthropologist on Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,269 ratings — published 1995
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,076 ratings — published 2007
The Mind's Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,055 ratings — published 2010
Awakenings (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,528 ratings — published 1973
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,896 ratings — published 1998
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,109 ratings — published 2011
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,990 ratings — published 2010
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 34 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 242,509 ratings — published 2012
Seeing Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,338 ratings — published 1989
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,990 ratings — published 2006
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,850 ratings — published 2017
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,106 ratings — published 2014
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,578 ratings — published 2015
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,223 ratings — published 1994
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,259 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.17 — 612,368 ratings — published 2011
The Island of the Colorblind (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,234 ratings — published 1997
A Leg to Stand On (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,023 ratings — published 1984
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,015 ratings — published 2017
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,942 ratings — published 2015
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,351 ratings — published 1997
On the Move: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,640 ratings — published 2015
Migraine (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,813 ratings — published 1970
Neuroanatomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.43 — 379 ratings — published
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,370 ratings — published 2006
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,357 ratings — published 2006
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,790 ratings — published 2017
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,920 ratings — published 2014
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.33 — 305,640 ratings — published 2014
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.13 — 574,994 ratings — published 2012
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,286 ratings — published 2010
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,138 ratings — published 1999
Uncle Tungsten (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,135 ratings — published 2001
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,577 ratings — published 2018
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.27 — 86,968 ratings — published 2018
The River of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,482 ratings — published 2017
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.28 — 18,446 ratings — published 2015
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,775 ratings — published 2014
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.33 — 365,798 ratings — published 2007
The Mind of a Mnemonist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,064 ratings — published 1965
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,735 ratings — published 2008
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.96 — 629,741 ratings — published 2005
Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,814 ratings — published 2018
Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,315 ratings — published 2007
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,378 ratings — published 2009
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,158 ratings — published 1996
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,783 ratings — published 1977
“Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?
a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?
or
b. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?
Of course my answer is b).”
―
a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?
or
b. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?
Of course my answer is b).”
―
“From the dark furnace of the human skull dawns the light of humankind.”
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
