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Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, by Metzinger, T.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions, by Metzinger, T. (Ed)

Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence, by Miller, W.I.

The Anatomy of Disgust, by Miller, W.I.

Faking It, by Miller, W.I.

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Mlodinow, L.

The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, by Norretranders, T.

How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, by Nuland, S.B

The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, by Penrose, R.

The Large, the Small and the Human Mind, by Penrose, R.

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, by Penrose, R.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Pinker, S

How the Mind Works, by Pinker, S.

The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism, by Popper, K. R., & Eccles, J. C.

Companion to Clinical Neurology, by Pryse-Phillips, W.

Phantoms in the Brain, by Ramachandran, V.S. and Blakeslee, S

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications, by Ratsch, C.

Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague, by Rhodes, R

DMT: The Spirit Molecule, by Rick Strassman

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Ridley, M.

Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human, by Ridley, M.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, by Ronson, J.

The Nature of Mind, by Rosenthal, D. (Ed.)

The Concept of Mind, by Ryle, G.

An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, by Sacks, O.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, by Sacks, O.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, by Sagan, C. and A. Druyan

Memory, Brain, and Belief, by Schacter, D.L. and E. Scarry

What Is Life?: with “Mind and Matter” and “Autobiographical Sketches”, by Schrödinger, E.

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, by Schwartz, B.

The Mystery of Consciousness, by Searle, J.R.

The Rediscovery of the Mind, by Searle, J.R.

Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power, by Searle, J.R.

God the Devil, and Darwin., by Shanks, N.

Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, by Shermer, M.

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies, by Shermer, M.

Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life, by Silver, L.M.

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, by Solomon, A

The Anatomy of Evil, by Stone, M.H.

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, by Styron, W.

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, by Taylor, J.B.

Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers, by Trivers, R.

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery, by Vertosick Jr., F

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, by Wade, N

The Illusion of Conscious Will, by Wegner, DM

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by Wilson, E.O.

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief, by Wolpert

The Moral Animal, by Wright, R.

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