Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA05725 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:17:52 +0100 Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 10:06:50 -0700 From: Virginia Bowen <ForVirg@pacbell.net> Subject: RE: Books please... In-reply-to: <999696204.3b96274ca66bc@rugth1.phys.rug.nl> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <000001c1362d$27a4e230$6401a8c0@VAIO> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Okay, here's a girl list member who usually just lurks, but since the
topics you've become interested in are the very same ones that I've been
passionately reading about for 2 or more years, I thought I'd toss in my
book suggestions (in order of importance, IMO), with the exception that
Dawkins' books range in importance:
Everything by Dawkins, but particularly River Out of Eden and Unweaving
the Rainbow.
The Lucifer Principle - Howard Bloom
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind -
Julian Jaynes (not light reading, could take a very long time, but I
think it's worth it)
I've just finished Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio - recommend that
highly for a slightly different (more holistic in the sense of covering
the brain's interaction with the body) view on neurobiology.
The Moral Animal - Wright
Consciousness Explained - Dennett
I've read a ton of others, but these are the ones that most stood out
for me as having the largest effect on my thinking. Two you've already
read (The Selfish Gene and Darwin's Dangerous Idea) would also make my
list of most influential.
Happy reading.
Virginia
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From: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
Philip Jonkers
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:23 AM
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Books please...
Dear fellow memetics-list members,
I noticed you guys (haven't witnessed any girls yet, sorry to say)
are quite educated and well read, judging from the frequent
reference to books on the list. I would like to exploit this fact
by asking each one of you what your favorite books are.
That is, please cite the titles of the books you learned
the most from. Also give a brief reason why please.
The last year I've become very interested in evolutionary
theory (biology, memetics, universal), intelligence and
neuroscience and am very eager to learn about these topics.
However, I have this problem that I don't read very quickly.
This forces me to be rather picky in choosing what books to read.
So, I would appreciate it if I could tap into your experience by
learning what books were most useful to you.
The books I've read or still are reading, include:
The Meme-Machine (Blackmore)
The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Dennett)
How The Mind Works (Pinker)
The Origin Of Species (Darwin)
Thanks much in advance,
Philip.
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