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Originally posted by woscar Thanks mate, I'll include it in my next shipment of books along with the one Lira posted.

JP Changeux - Neuronal Man
It's more than cognitive science, but still very interesting (and easy to read, which can be better for non-scientist!)

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Originally posted by woscar Do you have any books to recommend on cognitive science or evolutionary psychology? Steven Pinker got me interested in such subjects and want to get more into them.

Well, I should just warn you that it is not exactly a science textbook, but a philosophy book infused with science (much like "The Brain and the Meaning of Life"). It spends quite a few pages on Husserl, for example, a person most scientists probably neglect.

Hmm... there's probably a couple of more titles on my virtual bookshelves on Goodreads, but I can't remember any specific title. But, now that you mentioned Steve Pinker, I remember he comes actually from a school my line of research harshly criticises, and I really enjoyed The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition by Michael Tomasello. Though Pinker is much more entertaining to read, I find Tomasello's book much more thorough. Specially on topics like - surprise! - language

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Originally posted by couch-potato Four books by Murakami. Halfway through Infinite Jest.

similar reading habits, we have. i've read nearly everything published by murakami. and wallace as well. that was such a depressing day for me, when i read in the news that he had hung himself

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Originally posted by d-miurge I'm currently reading A Confederacy of Dunces by JK Toole. It's damn brilliant. The story behind is awesome too.

love this one. i don't know if i'd call the story behind it 'awesome' though. perhaps tragic is a more fitting word.

read the neon bible too. it's not nearly as good- but it's a quick and insightful read.

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Originally posted by woscar Do you have any books to recommend on cognitive science or evolutionary psychology? Steven Pinker got me interested in such subjects and want to get more into them.

Don't know how close this is to your interests, but I would recommend On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins



Jeff talks about, in a popular science kind of style, a theory of how intelligence arises out of neocortical information processing. He tears apart classical views on artificial intelligence and goes on to talks all about the neural mechanisms that enable us to learn to do all sorts of intelligent things that computers can't. He does it without getting too technical either (except for a couple of chapters) and gives tons of very good examples.

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Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated.

BTW, thanks to Lira, I found a great website called Goodreads that allows you to keep digital bookshelves, write reviews, share them with friends on Facebook, see what they are reading, etc. Kind of like a Discogs for books. Highly recommended.

http://www.goodreads.com

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Originally posted by woscar Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated. BTW, thanks to Lira, I found a great website called Goodreads that allows you to keep digital bookshelves, write reviews, share them with friends on Facebook, see what they are reading, etc. Kind of like a Discogs for books. Highly recommended. http://www.goodreads.com

Hah, don't thank me, thank Mr. JeevaJingoJingles

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"philosophy in the bedroom" by Marquis de Sade
"Is there life after death?" by Anthony Peake

+ a fuckload of anatomy books. Gotto refresh the knowledge.

Just finished this bad boy:



The ending ending (final part of the epilogue) is glorious. EDIT: During the reading I imagined the character of Raskolnikov as Peter Lorre (mostly his accent, which made the other characters pale in comparison, save for Razumikhin, who I voiced as Gimli the dwarf ), only to find out, an hour after completion of the novel, that Peter Lorre did portray Raskolnikov in a 1935 film adaptation. Now I have to see it.

Tackling this next since I should finish it in a day; I've recently discovered I'm a huge nerd for Greek/Roman myth:



Have The Odyssey in queue (decided on Fagles' translation). And Infinite Jest still compliments everything I read for the time being... I should finish it in a few months at this rate.

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Just started Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler, who has yet to disappoint.

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