 | Consciousness by Rita Carter
Buy used from: £4.99 The best all round guide - I wish I'd found it much earlier. 'Exploring Consciousness' is the American version of the same book.
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 | The Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M. Edelman
Buy new: £13.50 / Used from: £6.00 Not the easiest read, but well worth the effort. This guy nearly has it cracked.
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 | Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality by Rita Carter
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £9.15 Follows on beautifully from Edelman's ideas.
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 | Mapping The Mind by Rita Carter
Buy used from: £25.00 You need to understand the brain to understand how consciousness builds. This book is the perfect guide.
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 | Biological Psychology (Ise) by James W. Kalat
Buy new: £41.18 / Used from: £37.00 Fantastically readable textbook with all the info you need on the subject.
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 | The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind Series) by David J. Chalmers
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £7.00 If you like reading inpenetrable philosophy, you'll love it. If you prefer science, download his 'Puzzle of Conscious Experience'' article instead. It's the same without the waffle.
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 | Consciousness Explained (Penguin Science) by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £4.84 No study of consciousness is complete without this classic. By the end he almost convinces you that there is no puzzle to solve. Didn't fool me, though!
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 | Conversations on Consciousness: Interviews with Twenty Minds by Susan Blackmore
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £29.99 This was the first book I read on the subject. You get a taste of what twenty researchers think. Still wish I'd read Rita Carter's book first though...
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 | The Philosophy Files by Stephen Law
Buy used from: £0.01 Everyone should read this one. For scientists, it will let you understand the philosophical side, for philosophers, it will teach you how philosophy *should* be written.
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 | From Cells to Consciousness
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £4.73 Open University science textbook.
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 | Signals and Perception: The Fundamentals of Human Sensation by David Roberts
Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £11.99 Open University science textbook
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 | The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
Buy used from: £0.01 This is the book that sparked my interest in solving the mystery of consciousness. Physics just didn't have the answer when this was written.
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 | Consciousness by Keith Frankish
Buy new: £16.10 / Used from: £5.75 It's philosophy, but not as you know it. It's readable!!! It's still obsessed with pigeon-holing philosophers instead of solving mysteries, but at least I can read it without losing my marbles...
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 | God's Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams
Buy used from: £2.91 Light hearted thought experiment, with some remarkable parallels to my own conclusions! Available from the author's site as a free download.
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 | The Astonishing Hypothesis : The Scientific Search for the Soul by CRICK FRANCIS
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £5.28 Many people now accept Crick's hypothesis, but this book is still essential reading. This guy cracked the code of life and his contribution to solving this mystery is also vital.
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 | Wider Than the Sky: A Revolutionary View of Consciousness (Penguin Press Science) by Gerald M. Edelman
Buy used from: £2.50 An easier read than his earlier book!
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 | RELATIVITY+ : The Theory of Everything by John Duffield
Buy new: £9.99 Not *quite* everything, he forgot to include consciousness, but this book provides the breakthrough vision of physics that gives us the clue to the missing part of the puzzle - its on page 42!
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