| These essential books will change your life everyday for the rest of your life. If you are off to college, do start with Science and Sanity. Thinking and learning, indeed science itself, can keep us locked down in averages and illusory statistical dreams. Many brain practitioners wait for academicians and meta statistics to do their office thinking for them. Many remain paleolithically adrift in outdated labels, arrested in "average presentations" with little appreciation of the true complexity of the person in the room, or themselves. These few texts will take you to different lands, different human geographies, with interesting different maps and measuring devices to watch the remarkable revolution in neuroscience. These are the books that take us out of the brain/mind dark ages. | ||
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| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn $9.23 This is truly a "big picture" book regarding the changes we see in Neuroscience. One of my three favorites in this list. Scien... | Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to...
by Gregory Berns $19.77 Gregory Berns, and MD-PhD, is an excellent writer, with a readable, almost bloglike, personal, authentic writing style. I str... | Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell $11.75 Coming out in Nov 08, go over to Amazon and see Malcolm talk about this book and his review of why some are simply culturally ... |
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| Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by Seth Godin $13.57 Seth Godin once again sets a remarkably useful grid for thought leaders to create communities that work. He has already done a... | Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-...
by Alfred Korzybski Yes, it looks heavy, and it is. But consider this: If you read this book you will understand every polemic, categorical argume... | Creative Intelligence and Self-Liberation: ...
by Ted Falconar This readable text helps the novitiate with Korzybski - condenses Korzybski's [listed here] Non-Aristotelian philosophy from a... |
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| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Im...
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb $18.48 We will be fooled by randomness and the improbable if we don't look for it. Anticipation lives in the blue area, out there bey... | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Ma...
by Malcolm Gladwell $8.97 See the interview here at Amazon with Gladwell. In the field of neuroscience we now live in a profound Tipping Point - the wor... | Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On The Matter O...
by Gerald Edelman $19.80 In this excellent piece Edelman brings together the controversial details regarding the history of philosophy, mind and brain ... |
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