Mind-Bending Trials Books | Summaries & Audio

The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten

by Julian Baggini • 2005

100 thought experiments that turn morality, identity, and reason inside out.

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💭 Thought Experiments 📚 Pop Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind

The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten 88%

100 thought experiments that turn morality, identity, and reason inside out.

by Julian Baggini 2005

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5k+ ratings

💭 Thought Experiments 📚 Pop Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind

There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book

by Robert M. Martin • 1992

Logic, morality, identity: each cracks under a well-chosen paradox. This book chooses well.

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🧩 Philosophical Puzzles 💭 Thought Experiments 🔄 Paradoxes

There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book Summary

There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book 88%

Logic, morality, identity: each cracks under a well-chosen paradox. This book chooses well.

by Robert M. Martin 1992

4.01

247 ratings

🧩 Philosophical Puzzles 💭 Thought Experiments 🔄 Paradoxes

Learn To Think Using Thought Experiments

by Patrick King • 2020

Your mind needs a gym. Philosophy's greatest thought experiments are the equipment.

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🧪 Thought Experiments 🏛️ Practical Philosophy 🔍 Critical Thinking

Learn To Think Using Thought Experiments Summary

Learn To Think Using Thought Experiments 88%

Your mind needs a gym. Philosophy's greatest thought experiments are the equipment.

by Patrick King 2020

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101 ratings

🧪 Thought Experiments 🏛️ Practical Philosophy 🔍 Critical Thinking

Prometheus Rising

by Robert Anton Wilson • 1983

You inherited a mental operating system. A guide to spotting the code and rewriting it yourself.

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🧠 Consciousness Models 🏗️ Reality Construction 💻 Mind Programming

Prometheus Rising 87%

You inherited a mental operating system. A guide to spotting the code and rewriting it yourself.

by Robert Anton Wilson 1983

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8k+ ratings

🧠 Consciousness Models 🏗️ Reality Construction 💻 Mind Programming

The Conscious Mind

by David J. Chalmers • 1996

A zombie physically identical to you feels nothing at all: why consciousness needs its own laws.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🌌 Metaphysics 🎨 Qualia

The Conscious Mind 87%

A zombie physically identical to you feels nothing at all: why consciousness needs its own laws.

by David J. Chalmers 1996

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🌌 Metaphysics 🎨 Qualia

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg

by Joseph Chilton Pearce • 1971

Your mind does not receive reality. It constructs it. And the blueprints can be redrawn.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🏗️ Reality Construction 🌌 Transpersonal Psychology

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg 87%

Your mind does not receive reality. It constructs it. And the blueprints can be redrawn.

by Joseph Chilton Pearce 1971

4.01

464 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🏗️ Reality Construction 🌌 Transpersonal Psychology

The Mind is Flat

by Nick Chater • 2018

Your inner life is not an archive. Every belief and emotion is improvised in the moment.

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🧠 Folk Psychology Critique 🔍 Consciousness Studies 🎭 Confabulation

The Mind is Flat 87%

Your inner life is not an archive. Every belief and emotion is improvised in the moment.

by Nick Chater 2018

3.74

852 ratings

🧠 Folk Psychology Critique 🔍 Consciousness Studies 🎭 Confabulation

Wider Than the Sky

by Gerald M. Edelman • 2004

The mind is not a program. Consciousness is built by neural selection, not by running code.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience

Wider Than the Sky 87%

The mind is not a program. Consciousness is built by neural selection, not by running code.

by Gerald M. Edelman 2004

3.65

421 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience

Surfing Uncertainty

by Andy Clark • 2015

Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔮 Predictive Processing

Surfing Uncertainty 87%

Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.

by Andy Clark 2015

4.09

381 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔮 Predictive Processing

I Am Right You Are Wrong

by Edward de Bono • 1990

Argument ruled Western thought for 2,400 years. The brain is actually built to perceive and design.

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🧠 Creative Cognition 👁️ Perception Logic 🕸️ Self-Organizing Systems

I Am Right You Are Wrong 87%

Argument ruled Western thought for 2,400 years. The brain is actually built to perceive and design.

by Edward de Bono 1990

3.82

518 ratings

🧠 Creative Cognition 👁️ Perception Logic 🕸️ Self-Organizing Systems

The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment

by Chris Niebauer • 2014

The self you're improving isn't real. Split-brain science on why effort undermines itself.

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🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🧠 Split-Brain Research 🔬 Neuroscience Of Self

The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment Summary

The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment 87%

The self you're improving isn't real. Split-brain science on why effort undermines itself.

by Chris Niebauer 2014

4.18

61 ratings

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🧠 Split-Brain Research 🔬 Neuroscience Of Self

What Is Madness?

by Darian Leader • 2011

Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.

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🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🌪️ Psychosis 💭 Delusion

What Is Madness? 87%

Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.

by Darian Leader 2011

4.14

531 ratings

🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🌪️ Psychosis 💭 Delusion

Doing Philosophy

by Timothy Williamson • 2018

Philosophy is a science that tests ideas with thought experiments, and the best explanation wins.

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🛠️ Philosophical Methodology 🔍 Analytic Philosophy 🧪 Thought Experiments

Doing Philosophy 87%

Philosophy is a science that tests ideas with thought experiments, and the best explanation wins.

by Timothy Williamson 2018

3.67

213 ratings

🛠️ Philosophical Methodology 🔍 Analytic Philosophy 🧪 Thought Experiments

Phantoms in the Brain

by V.S. Ramachandran • 1998

A missing arm can still hurt. That paradox unlocks how your brain constructs reality.

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🧠 Neuropsychology 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🏥 Neurological Disorders

Phantoms in the Brain 87%

A missing arm can still hurt. That paradox unlocks how your brain constructs reality.

by V.S. Ramachandran 1998

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21k+ ratings

🧠 Neuropsychology 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🏥 Neurological Disorders

Physical Intelligence

by Scott Grafton • 2020

Movement is the foundation of thought, and fatigue is your brain's way of holding you back.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Mind-Body Connection 🧬 Neuroplasticity

Physical Intelligence 87%

Movement is the foundation of thought, and fatigue is your brain's way of holding you back.

by Scott Grafton 2020

3.60

194 ratings

🧠 Embodied Cognition 🔗 Mind-Body Connection 🧬 Neuroplasticity

The Mind’s I

by Douglas R. Hofstadter • 1981

Borges, Turing, a headless mystic: the anthology where the self dissolves one essay at a time.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Consciousness Studies 🤖 Artificial Intelligence

The Mind’s I 87%

Borges, Turing, a headless mystic: the anthology where the self dissolves one essay at a time.

by Douglas R. Hofstadter 1981

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Consciousness Studies 🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Minds, Brains and Science

by John Rogers Searle • 1984

Consciousness is biological, not computational. That is why no program will ever think.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Mind-Body Problem 🔬 Cognitive Science

Minds, Brains and Science 87%

Consciousness is biological, not computational. That is why no program will ever think.

by John Rogers Searle 1984

3.76

626 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Mind-Body Problem 🔬 Cognitive Science

The Brain

by David Eagleman • 2015

Your self is a construction rebuilt daily by a brain that will run on any hardware.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🎭 Constructed Reality

The Brain 87%

Your self is a construction rebuilt daily by a brain that will run on any hardware.

by David Eagleman 2015

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🎭 Constructed Reality

The Power Of Impossible Thinking

by Yoram Jerry Wind • 2004

Your mental models decide what you see. Outdated ones close off worlds you don't know exist.

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🧠 Mental Models 🏢 Organizational Change 🔄 Cognitive Flexibility

The Power Of Impossible Thinking Summary

The Power Of Impossible Thinking 87%

Your mental models decide what you see. Outdated ones close off worlds you don't know exist.

by Yoram Jerry Wind 2004

3.59

213 ratings

🧠 Mental Models 🏢 Organizational Change 🔄 Cognitive Flexibility

DMT

by Rick Strassman • 2000

Injected with a molecule all humans carry, volunteers entered worlds of intelligent beings.

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🧪 Psychedelic Research 🌀 Altered States 👽 Entity Encounters

DMT 87%

Injected with a molecule all humans carry, volunteers entered worlds of intelligent beings.

by Rick Strassman 2000

4.15

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🧪 Psychedelic Research 🌀 Altered States 👽 Entity Encounters

Edward de Bono's Textbook of Wisdom

by Edward de Bono • 1996

Wisdom is not knowing the answers; it is widening perception until better questions appear.

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🦉 Practical Wisdom 👁️ Perception And Reality 🧠 Cognitive Flexibility

Edward de Bono's Textbook of Wisdom Summary

Edward de Bono's Textbook of Wisdom 87%

Wisdom is not knowing the answers; it is widening perception until better questions appear.

by Edward de Bono 1996

3.76

119 ratings

🦉 Practical Wisdom 👁️ Perception And Reality 🧠 Cognitive Flexibility

Then I Am Myself the World

by Christof Koch • 2024

No matter how smart AI becomes, it will never be sentient. Consciousness is not computable.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🪞 Subjectivity And Self

Then I Am Myself the World 87%

No matter how smart AI becomes, it will never be sentient. Consciousness is not computable.

by Christof Koch 2024

3.98

388 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🪞 Subjectivity And Self

God's Debris

by Scott Adams • 2001

A deliveryman meets a stranger who explains why God no longer exists.

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📖 Philosophical Fiction 🧪 Thought Experiment 🧙 Spiritual Mentor

God's Debris 87%

A deliveryman meets a stranger who explains why God no longer exists.

by Scott Adams 2001

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8k+ ratings

📖 Philosophical Fiction 🧪 Thought Experiment 🧙 Spiritual Mentor

Hallucinations

by Oliver Sacks • 2012

Hallucinations are not the brain breaking. They are the brain showing how it builds reality.

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 👁️ Hallucinations 🌌 Altered States

Hallucinations 87%

Hallucinations are not the brain breaking. They are the brain showing how it builds reality.

by Oliver Sacks 2012

3.93

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 👁️ Hallucinations 🌌 Altered States

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

by Aldous Huxley • 1956

Your brain edits reality to survival essentials. Huxley took mescaline and watched the editing stop.

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🌀 Altered States ✨ Mystical Experience 👁️ Perception And Reality

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell Summary

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell 87%

Your brain edits reality to survival essentials. Huxley took mescaline and watched the editing stop.

by Aldous Huxley 1956

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🌀 Altered States ✨ Mystical Experience 👁️ Perception And Reality

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

by Daniel C. Dennett • 2013

A philosopher's toolbox: learn to think sharper about consciousness, evolution, and free will.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💭 Thought Experiments 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Summary

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking 87%

A philosopher's toolbox: learn to think sharper about consciousness, evolution, and free will.

by Daniel C. Dennett 2013

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4k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💭 Thought Experiments 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

I Am a Strange Loop

by Douglas R. Hofstadter • 2007

The self is an abstract loop the brain builds, and Gödel's proof shows how.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Consciousness Studies

I Am a Strange Loop 87%

The self is an abstract loop the brain builds, and Gödel's proof shows how.

by Douglas R. Hofstadter 2007

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9k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Consciousness Studies

Incognito

by David Eagleman • 2011

Your brain has already decided before you know it. Consciousness is just the press release.

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Incognito 87%

Your brain has already decided before you know it. Consciousness is just the press release.

by David Eagleman 2011

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Hypersanity

by Neel Burton • 2019

Logic fails at life's hardest problems. The tools you really use are older and stranger.

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🧠 Limits Of Reason 🫀 Emotional Intelligence ⚡ Intuition Research

Hypersanity 87%

Logic fails at life's hardest problems. The tools you really use are older and stranger.

by Neel Burton 2019

3.60

182 ratings

🧠 Limits Of Reason 🫀 Emotional Intelligence ⚡ Intuition Research

Consciousness

by Susan Blackmore • 2003

Why brain activity feels like something, and the self that feels it is a fiction.

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🧠 Consciousness 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Neuroscience Of Self

Consciousness 87%

Why brain activity feels like something, and the self that feels it is a fiction.

by Susan Blackmore 2003

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🧠 Consciousness 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Neuroscience Of Self

Can You Solve My Problems?

by Alex Bellos • 2016

A wolf, a goat, a cabbage, and the puzzles that teach you to think in proofs.

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🧩 Recreational Mathematics 📚 Puzzle Collections 🧠 Mathematical Thinking

Can You Solve My Problems? 87%

A wolf, a goat, a cabbage, and the puzzles that teach you to think in proofs.

by Alex Bellos 2016

4.03

387 ratings

🧩 Recreational Mathematics 📚 Puzzle Collections 🧠 Mathematical Thinking

The Sense of Being Stared at

by Rupert Sheldrake • 2003

The feeling of being watched is real, and it means your mind extends far beyond your brain.

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🧠 Extended Mind 🔮 Parapsychology 📡 Telepathy

The Sense of Being Stared at 87%

The feeling of being watched is real, and it means your mind extends far beyond your brain.

by Rupert Sheldrake 2003

3.79

509 ratings

🧠 Extended Mind 🔮 Parapsychology 📡 Telepathy

The Mechanism of Mind

by Edward de Bono • 2015

Why your brain resists new ideas, and a single word that overrides its defenses.

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🧠 Cognitive Models 💭 Thinking Methods ↗️ Lateral Thinking

The Mechanism of Mind 87%

Why your brain resists new ideas, and a single word that overrides its defenses.

by Edward de Bono 2015

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🧠 Cognitive Models 💭 Thinking Methods ↗️ Lateral Thinking

Practical Thinking

by Edward de Bono • 1971

Being right isn't one thing: it's four. And each carries its own trap.

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🧠 Critical Thinking 🧩 Mental Models 🔧 Problem Solving

Practical Thinking 87%

Being right isn't one thing: it's four. And each carries its own trap.

by Edward de Bono 1971

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133 ratings

🧠 Critical Thinking 🧩 Mental Models 🔧 Problem Solving

Mystery

by Jonah Lehrer • 2021

Clarity is overrated: why your brain needs the unknown to stay curious, creative, and connected.

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🧠 Science Of Curiosity 📖 Narrative Psychology 🎨 Neuroscience Of Art

Mystery 87%

Clarity is overrated: why your brain needs the unknown to stay curious, creative, and connected.

by Jonah Lehrer 2021

3.84

189 ratings

🧠 Science Of Curiosity 📖 Narrative Psychology 🎨 Neuroscience Of Art

Mastermind

by Maria Konnikova • 2013

Learn to think like Sherlock Holmes: a psychologist's method for sharper observation and reasoning.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔍 Deductive Reasoning 🗺️ Mental Models

Mastermind 87%

Learn to think like Sherlock Holmes: a psychologist's method for sharper observation and reasoning.

by Maria Konnikova 2013

3.55

9k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔍 Deductive Reasoning 🗺️ Mental Models

Westworld and Philosophy

by Richard Greene • 2018

Westworld turns consequence-free violence into philosophy's sharpest questions about your own mind.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤖 Artificial Consciousness

Westworld and Philosophy 87%

Westworld turns consequence-free violence into philosophy's sharpest questions about your own mind.

by Richard Greene 2018

3.81

21 ratings

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤖 Artificial Consciousness

Descartes' Error

by António Damásio • 1994

A railroad foreman's brain injury revealed that reason depends on emotion, not pure logic.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🦵 Embodied Cognition

Descartes' Error 87%

A railroad foreman's brain injury revealed that reason depends on emotion, not pure logic.

by António Damásio 1994

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10k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🦵 Embodied Cognition

Think Like Sherlock

by Peter Hollins • 2018

Sleepiness, constraints, and shifting perspective: the unconventional route to sharper thinking.

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🧩 Creative Problem-Solving 🔀 Lateral Thinking 🧠 Critical Thinking

Think Like Sherlock 87%

Sleepiness, constraints, and shifting perspective: the unconventional route to sharper thinking.

by Peter Hollins 2018

3.70

178 ratings

🧩 Creative Problem-Solving 🔀 Lateral Thinking 🧠 Critical Thinking

The Puzzler

by A.J. Jacobs • 2022

Puzzles teach us to reframe problems, erase bad answers, and love the struggle. One man's proof.

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🔍 Immersive Journalism 🧩 Puzzle Culture 📜 Puzzle History

The Puzzler 87%

Puzzles teach us to reframe problems, erase bad answers, and love the struggle. One man's proof.

by A.J. Jacobs 2022

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4k+ ratings

🔍 Immersive Journalism 🧩 Puzzle Culture 📜 Puzzle History

Entangled Minds

by Dean Radin • 2006

Quantum entanglement may explain telepathy, and a century of lab evidence says it's real.

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🔬 Experimental Parapsychology 🧠 Consciousness Studies ⚛️ Quantum Mysticism

Entangled Minds 87%

Quantum entanglement may explain telepathy, and a century of lab evidence says it's real.

by Dean Radin 2006

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🔬 Experimental Parapsychology 🧠 Consciousness Studies ⚛️ Quantum Mysticism

Infinite Love is the Only Truth

by David Icke • 2005

Your reality is a hologram broadcast by something wearing your leaders like clothes.

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🌐 Holographic Universe 🦎 Conspirituality 😨 Fear As Control

Infinite Love is the Only Truth 87%

Your reality is a hologram broadcast by something wearing your leaders like clothes.

by David Icke 2005

4.09

565 ratings

🌐 Holographic Universe 🦎 Conspirituality 😨 Fear As Control

Critical Thinking

by Simon Bradley • 2016

A structured method for evaluating evidence, cutting through noise, and knowing when inaction wins.

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🧠 Critical Thinking 🔍 Logical Reasoning 💬 Socratic Method

Critical Thinking 87%

A structured method for evaluating evidence, cutting through noise, and knowing when inaction wins.

by Simon Bradley 2016

3.27

241 ratings

🧠 Critical Thinking 🔍 Logical Reasoning 💬 Socratic Method

The essential Colin Wilson

by Colin Wilson • 1986

Routine dulls the mind. Waking it is trainable, and the next human evolution hangs on it.

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🔍 Existential Psychology 🧠 Consciousness Studies ✨ Peak Experiences

The essential Colin Wilson 87%

Routine dulls the mind. Waking it is trainable, and the next human evolution hangs on it.

by Colin Wilson 1986

4.10

101 ratings

🔍 Existential Psychology 🧠 Consciousness Studies ✨ Peak Experiences

My Big TOE - Awakening, Discovey, Inner Workings

by Thomas Campbell • 2007

You are not a body in a universe; you are consciousness inside a simulation.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🖥️ Simulation Theory 🐛 Evolution Of Consciousness

My Big TOE - Awakening, Discovey, Inner Workings Summary

My Big TOE - Awakening, Discovey, Inner Workings 87%

You are not a body in a universe; you are consciousness inside a simulation.

by Thomas Campbell 2007

4.30

528 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🖥️ Simulation Theory 🐛 Evolution Of Consciousness

Play Anything

by Ian Bogost • 2016

Real fun needs rules, not freedom. The philosopher's case against chasing happiness.

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🎲 Philosophy Of Games 🔗 Creative Constraints 🔄 Anti-Self-Help

Play Anything 87%

Real fun needs rules, not freedom. The philosopher's case against chasing happiness.

by Ian Bogost 2016

3.17

572 ratings

🎲 Philosophy Of Games 🔗 Creative Constraints 🔄 Anti-Self-Help

Phi

by Giulio Tononi • 2012

How to measure a soul: why a camera distinguishes more than a brain, yet cannot see.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🧍 Neuroscience Of Self

Phi 87%

How to measure a soul: why a camera distinguishes more than a brain, yet cannot see.

by Giulio Tononi 2012

3.89

944 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🧍 Neuroscience Of Self

Simulations of God

by John C. Lilly • 1975

God is a simulation your mind builds, and altered states reveal the source code.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌀 Altered States 🔬 Transpersonal Psychology

Simulations of God 87%

God is a simulation your mind builds, and altered states reveal the source code.

by John C. Lilly 1975

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133 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌀 Altered States 🔬 Transpersonal Psychology

The User Illusion

by Tor Nørretranders • 1991

Consciousness is not a window onto reality. It's a dashboard. And it's half a second behind.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 📡 Information Theory

The User Illusion 87%

Consciousness is not a window onto reality. It's a dashboard. And it's half a second behind.

by Tor Nørretranders 1991

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 📡 Information Theory

Zen and the Art of Consciousness

by Susan Blackmore • 2009

The self is a trick of the brain and free will a mirage. A Zen psychologist's investigation.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🪷 Zen Buddhism

Zen and the Art of Consciousness Summary

Zen and the Art of Consciousness 87%

The self is a trick of the brain and free will a mirage. A Zen psychologist's investigation.

by Susan Blackmore 2009

3.57

277 ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🪷 Zen Buddhism

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