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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.05 — 248,677 ratings — published 1985
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,055 ratings — published 2007
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,475 ratings — published 2012
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,937 ratings — published 1995
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,521 ratings — published 2007
The Mind's Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,866 ratings — published 2010
Awakenings (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,300 ratings — published 1973
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,652 ratings — published 1998
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,709 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 — 10,934 ratings — published 2010
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,511 ratings — published 2012
Seeing Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,244 ratings — published 1989
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 25 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,886 ratings — published 2014
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.37 — 230,474 ratings — published 2017
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,263 ratings — published 2006
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,072 ratings — published 2015
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,064 ratings — published 1994
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.25 — 43,364 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.17 — 596,939 ratings — published 2011
The Island of the Colorblind (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,187 ratings — published 1997
A Leg to Stand On (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,978 ratings — published 1984
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.38 — 32,617 ratings — published 2017
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,822 ratings — published 2015
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,159 ratings — published 1997
On the Move: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,546 ratings — published 2015
Migraine (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,790 ratings — published 1970
Neuroanatomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.43 — 377 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 — 5,338 ratings — published 2006
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.92 — 32,829 ratings — published 2006
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 — 5,846 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 4.34 — 289,736 ratings — published 2014
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,367 ratings — published 2017
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 — 567,105 ratings — published 2012
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,268 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 4.01 — 4,086 ratings — published 1999
Uncle Tungsten (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,062 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 4.13 — 19,693 ratings — published 2018
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,249 ratings — published 2018
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 — 15,597 ratings — published 2014
The Mind of a Mnemonist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,041 ratings — published 1965
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.96 — 625,042 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 — 4,737 ratings — published 2018
The River of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,311 ratings — published 2017
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.28 — 18,049 ratings — published 2015
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.32 — 362,453 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 4.35 — 4,157 ratings — published 2009
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,518 ratings — published 2008
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.35 — 11,832 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 — 21,602 ratings — published 1977
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as neurology)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,645 ratings — published 2003
“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).”
―
“Neuroscience is Poetry (Sonnet 2717)
Human brain is the most astonishing
transdimensional engineering of Mother Nature,
from outside it's just a 3 pound lump of goop,
but inside, the very fabric of spacetime
bursts into existence -
we stretch time when we suffer,
we compress time when we're joyful,
we expand space in empathy,
we collapse distance through memory -
we invent gods when we feel helpless,
we invent weapons when we're scared,
we invent poetry when we're inspired,
we invent politics when we want control -
in short, the human brain is bigger
on the inside than the outside.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
Human brain is the most astonishing
transdimensional engineering of Mother Nature,
from outside it's just a 3 pound lump of goop,
but inside, the very fabric of spacetime
bursts into existence -
we stretch time when we suffer,
we compress time when we're joyful,
we expand space in empathy,
we collapse distance through memory -
we invent gods when we feel helpless,
we invent weapons when we're scared,
we invent poetry when we're inspired,
we invent politics when we want control -
in short, the human brain is bigger
on the inside than the outside.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
