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Cognitive Science Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 570,388 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,926 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,877 ratings — published 1979
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,359 ratings — published 1994
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,593 ratings — published 1991
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 241,516 ratings — published 1985
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,264 ratings — published 1991
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,134 ratings — published 2002
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,777 ratings — published 1980
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,836 ratings — published 1994
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,856 ratings — published 2008
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,113 ratings — published 2011
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,598 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,161 ratings — published 2007
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,930 ratings — published 1981
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,501 ratings — published 2007
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 39,726 ratings — published 2007
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,334 ratings — published 1985
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,128 ratings — published 2017
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,189 ratings — published 2007
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,282 ratings — published 1998
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,939 ratings — published 2004
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,345 ratings — published 1998
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 158 ratings — published 2010
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 240 ratings — published 1996
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,452 ratings — published 2010
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 349 ratings — published 2000
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,941 ratings — published 2014
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,727 ratings — published 2012
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,233 ratings — published 2010
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,223 ratings — published 2009
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,012 ratings — published 2006
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.87 — 306 ratings — published 2008
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,561 ratings — published 2017
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,851 ratings — published 2010
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,318 ratings — published 2016
Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 395 ratings — published 2000
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,084 ratings — published 2007
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,004 ratings — published 2012
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 86,793 ratings — published 1990
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,344 ratings — published 2013
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,822 ratings — published 2009
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 83,001 ratings — published 2018
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,038 ratings — published 2016
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 22,287 ratings — published 2015
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,450 ratings — published 1996
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,558 ratings — published 1989
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,442 ratings — published 1995
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,103 ratings — published 1987
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,552 ratings — published 2020
“People are Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) of their actions [and previous selves], with a varying number of data points.
You(Today) = Acts(Today)*a + You(Yesterday)*b
You are an expanding fuzzy network!”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
You(Today) = Acts(Today)*a + You(Yesterday)*b
You are an expanding fuzzy network!”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
“The incompleteness of our knowledge is often addressed with different extrapolations and assumptions, sacrificing precision for ease, and reflecting the self onto the world.
This is not always bad, but it can – easily – become tricky.”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
This is not always bad, but it can – easily – become tricky.”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
