 | Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £4.84 A soul can be made of tiny robots and still feel like us.
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 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £4.10 Natural selection is a basis for meaning.
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 | The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
Buy new: £12.73 / Used from: £10.90 Real maths and real physics that practicing physicists would recognise. The Spacetime chapter is stunning. Plenty of Penrosian heterodoxy.
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 | The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £2.08 Psychology has mechanisms. Speech is one of the crucial ones.
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 | The Stuff of Thought:: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.28 The universals of human language reveal the detailed frameworks of perception
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 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £3.65 First of the big Dawkins three. Evolution is not wishy-washy "good of the species" -- it's as statistical as thermodynamics.
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 | The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.81 / Used from: £3.25 The beaver dam is equal to the beaver tail as an expression of the beaver genome. Enjoy the haplo-diploidy in the genetics of eusocial insects.
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 | The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.66 Paley was right. There does have to be a watchmaker, but it seems that natural selection suffices
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 | The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.45 I can't be bothered with Dawkins' shouty-crackers atheism. He should stick to zoology and the Tale shows why.
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 | Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £4.93 If you want atheism, Dennet does it better. Polite, urgent, impeccable -- and devastating.
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 | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £2.62 Better as polemic than science, but it's very comforting to learn how little of our children's development is our fault.
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 | Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.70 Freedom is compatible with deterministic physics. Enjoy the demolition of all the sorts of free will we think we might want but don't really.
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