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Austin, James H., M.D. Zen-Brain Reflections: Reviewing Recent Developments in Meditation and States of Consciousness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.

Aunger, Robert. The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think. New York: The Free Press, 2002.

Baron-Cohen, Simon. The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth About Autism. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Baumgartner, Peter and Sabine Payr, eds. Speaking Minds: Interviews with Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientists. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Benzon, William. Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Blakeslee, Sandra; and Matthew Blakeslee. The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Your Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better. New York: Random House, 2007.

Buller, David J. Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005.

Butterworth, Brian. What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math. New York: The Free Press, 1999.

Cairns-Smith, A. G. Evolving the Mind: On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Calvin, William H. How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence Then and Now. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Changeux, Jean-Pierre. Neuronal Man. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

Changeux, Jean-Pierre and Alain Connes. Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Cheney, Dorothy L. and Robert M. Seyfarth. How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1990.

Crick, Francis. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

Damasio, Antonio. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999.

Damasio, Antonio. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, 2003.

Deacon, Terrence W. The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Dehaene, Stanislas. The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Dennett, Daniel C. Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Dozier, Rush W., Jr. Codes of Evolution: The Synaptic Language Revealing the Secrets of Matter, Life and Thought. New York: Crown Publishers, 1992.

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. The Mechanization of Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Edelman, Gerald M. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Edelman, Gerald M. A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Feinberg, Todd E. Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Gardner, Howard. The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

Greenspan, Stanley I. and Stuart G. The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2004.

Gregory, Richard L. Mind in Science: A History of Explanations in Psychology and Physics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Griffin, Donald R. Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Hampden-Turner, Charles. Maps of the Mind: Charts and Concepts of the Mind and its Labyrinths. New York: Macmillan, 1981.

Harth, Erich. Windows On the Mind: Reflections On the Physical Basis of Consciousness. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.

Herbert, Nick. Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics. New York: Dutton, 1993.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books, 1979.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. I Am a Strange Loop . New York: Basic Books, 2007.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. and Daniel C. Dennett, eds. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

Humphrey, Nicholas. Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Hunt, Morton. The Universe Within: A New Science Explores the Human Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

Johnson, George. In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Kandel, Eric R. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.

Kelso, J. A. Scott. Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995.

LeDoux, Joseph. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. New York: Viking, 2002.

Libet, Benjamin. Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Llinas, Rodolfo R. I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001.

Lockwood, Michael. Mind, Brain and the Quantum: The Compound 'I'. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.

Marcus, Gary. The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Maturana, Humberto R.and Francisco J. Varela. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Boston: Shambhala, 1992.

Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Mithin, Steven. The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science. London: Thames & Hudson, 1996.

Norretranders, Tor. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size. New York: Viking, 1998.

Ornstein, Robert. The Evolution of Consciousness: Of Darwin, Freud, and Cranial Fire -- The Origins of the Way We Think. New York: Prentice Hall, 1991.

Penrose, Roger. The Large, the Small and the Human Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Penrose, Roger. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Pietsch, Paul. Shufflebrain: The Quest for the Hologramic Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.

Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York: William Morrow, 1994.

Pinker, Steven. Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Plotkin, Henry. The Imagined World Made Real: Towards a Natural Science of Culture. London: Allen Lane, 2002.

Restak, Richard. The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale, 2004.

Richardson, Ken. The Making of Intelligence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Rosenblum, Bruce and Fred Kuttner. Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Rosenfield, Israel. The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Satinover, Jeffrey. The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001.

Schwartz, Jeffrey M., M.D., and Sharon Begley. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. New York: ReganBooks, 2002.

Skoyles, John R. and Dorian Sagan. Up from Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Spitzer, Manfred. The Mind Within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking, and Acting. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999.

Tancredi, Laurence. Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality. New York: Cambridge Universirt Press, 2005.

Trefil, James. Are We Unique? A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Vaillant, George E. Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith. New York: Broadway Books, 2008.

Varela, Francisco J.; Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992.

von Bertalanffy. Robots, Men and Minds: Psychology in the Modern World. New York: George Braziller, 1967.

Walker, Evan Harris. The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 2000.

Weiner, Jonathan. Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Wills, Christopher. The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Zimmer, Carl. Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain -- and How It Changed the World. New York: Free Press, 2004.

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