my mind on books

The Mind Science Foundation has put together a nice list of over 40 books in their “Consciousness Cyber Library”; plus they are compiling a “Consciousness Researchers Database.” If you’re in the San Antonio, Texas, area you can also take advantage of their speakers and events.

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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina is a new book with a nice website/blog.
He has boiled it all down to 12 rules dealing with exercise, survival, wiring, attention, short-term memory, long-term memory, sleep, stress, sensory integration, vision, gender and exploration.

3/31/08: Seattle Times article

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle (3/16/08) has an interview with Tom Wolfe, discussing “surprisingly trendy neuroscience.” According to the article Wolfe is working on a book on the topic, to be called The Human Beast.

Wolfe’s 1996 essay “Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died,” referred to in the article, is reprinted here.

Wolfe’s 2006 Jefferson Lecture is “The Human Beast.”

Jose Delgado’s “Physical Control of the Mind,” recommended by Wolfe, is available online here

David Chalmers has posted about Andy Clark‘s upcoming book Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension. I enjoyed Clark’s earlier book Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence so I’ll be looking forward to this new one.

This seems like an appropriately numerical title in celebration of Pi Day (3.14)…

42: Deep Thought on Life by Mark Vernon sounds like some Monty Python joke, but here is the book description:

Mark Vernon takes his inspiration from 42 of the funniest, wisest, and quirkiest quotations about the big questions in life, and uses these as starting points for his brilliant observations. In each chapter he explains what the greatest thinkers of all time have had to say on subjects such as eternal life, work, love and sex, and the nature of happiness; he draws his own conclusions, and will provoke you to think deeply yourself!

BBC article by Vernon on ’42’ in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide – (This may be an excerpt from Vernon’s book?); also the publisher’s site has a sample chapter.

I like this Author’s blog!