Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition Heinz Von Foerster Springer, 2002 In these essays Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. Included are path- breaking articles concerning the principles of computation in neural nets (1967), the definition of self-organizing systems (1960), the nature of cognition (1970), as well as recent expansions ...             Jung on Mythology1 review C. G. Jung Princeton University Press, 1998 Myths as bridges to unconscious Myths in their essence are like bridges to unconscious. Or at least they used to be - at the time when their message was still correctly interpreted and understood. But along with time religions have gone astray by severing belief from practice, and trying in vain to rely on the sheer belief alone. ...             Dragons of Eden65 reviews Carl Sagan Random House, 1977 The Dragons of Sagan + A must read book + One fo the best, and most important books ever written + Great Book + A Great Book by Carl Sagan             Dreams: A Reader on Religious, Cultural and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming2 reviews Palgrave Macmillan, 2001 If you can only get one book on dreams -- make it this one! + Good book to get a feel for the scope of the subject (Right up front, I should say I am one of the authors of this book. So, I won't discuss my article.) But the rest of the book presents such a vast range of information -- the biology of dreaming, the role of dreams in different cultures (such as India, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Islam, Native ...             Our Dreaming Mind10 reviews Robert Van De Castle Ballantine Books, 1995 Perfect Library Resource + My Dream Text Book! + Fascinating + Interesting read + The best book on dreming so far, if not the best imaginable             Man and His Symbols45 reviews Carl Gustav Jung Doubleday, 1969 This book changed my life + Always go to the source + Man and his symbols - a must have I picked up a copy of this book in Mendocino, CA just after I graduated from college and was trying to figure out what to do with my life. For those of you who are somewhat introverted, academic, or artistic, you may find that his book changes your view and helps begin the process of what Jung (and ...             A Universe Of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination18 reviews Gerald Edelman, Giulio Tononi Basic Books, 2000 The BEST Book on Consciousness -- By Far + A Commendable Attempt at our Most Miraculous Question + Imagine a complex subject ... This is a most exciting and most challenging read on consciousness. Finally, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry return as the hallmarks of the theory, bolstered by a high amount of "Neural Darwinism," in order, "to formulate a specific hypothesis about the kinds of neural processes ...             The Oxford Book of Dreams (Oxford Books of Prose) Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Dreams have been a source of delight and terror for as long as people have kept records of their thought. Whether dreams are the key to the unconscious, as Freud proposed, or a way of wiping clean the mental slate, as Dr. Francis Crick's theory suggests, they have filled the pages of numerous diaries and been an integral part of literary masterworks such as The Divine Comedy and Finnegan's Wake. ...             Consciousness5 reviews J. Allan Hobson W.H. Freeman and Company, 2000 Ideas concerning the What, if not Who, I am ! + Points toward the solution to the mind-body problem + Good. + "Consciousness" is well worth reading.             Memories, Dreams, Reflections51 reviews C.G. Jung Vintage, 1989 Intensity-his mind was flooded with profound ideas + One of Jung's greatest achievements + Reflections of Jung + Valuable linsight into Jung's inner life             The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul15 reviews Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett Bantam, 1985 An I-opening experience + Old but not outdated + The Mind's I opener + Dated but still worth the time             The Concept of Mind8 reviews Gilbert Ryle University Of Chicago Press, 1984 A Matter of Mind + MENS SANA + One of the best book of the ordinary language philosophy + Ghosts + A Classic of Philosophy of Mind             Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind95 reviews V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee Harper Perennial, 1999 engaging and intrguing + An Exciting and Entertaining Foray into the Mind + Are there phantoms in our brain or is our self a phantom? + Good for those considering Cognitive Science as a major + And the point is....             The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions1 review Isaac Asimov Houghton Mifflin, 1963 An Amazzing Narration This book is really an amazzing one. In this book the author tried to narrate the capabilities of human brains and its phenominal.             Exploring Consciousness13 reviews Rita Carter University of California Press, 2004 "You" could be changed by this book. + Great overview. Possibly spoilt by too much imagery + Keep the philosophers out of neurology + Gives a good framework for the issue... + Utterly Fascinating             Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness17 reviews Gerald M. Edelman Yale University Press, 2005 One of our Greatest Intellectual Mysteries Finally solved + Well worth reading if you are interested in consciousness and its neural underpinnings + right ideas but could have been better written Building systematically and admirably on his previous work (A Universe of Consciousness), Gerald Edelman, has finally succeeded in cracking the cosmic code of the mind body problem, or how the conscious mind is a direct product of, rather than an indirect, or by-produce of, or even an ...             Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings3 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Great! + A Neuroscientist's Perspective + Outstanding collection of papers This is a fantastic collection compiled by David Chalmers, one of the leading philosophers of mind today. The best papers in here are "Quining Qualia" and " True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works" by Dan Dennett, "The Rediscovery of Light" by Paul Churchland (all you ...             Sleep (Scientific American Library Series,)3 reviews J. Allan Hobson W. H. Freeman, 1995 Amazing + Sleep + Amazing This book offers more information and factual data, then first assumed. You'll learn about sleep disorders, and all of the latest research. For example, did you know that the sleep attacks of narcolepsy occur at periodic intervals of 90 - 100 minutes, during waking, a frequency that collides with ...             The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates2 reviews The MIT Press, 1997 Of course, this is a must for those studying cogsci + Most comprehesive book out there on the topic. It's a thick book and has lots of stuffs in it. Nearly all of most important philosophical works on consciousness in recent years are brought together in this single volume. Naturally, this is a textbook for graduate-level courses in cognitive science or philosophy of mind. And makes a quite ...             The Mystery of Consciousness31 reviews John R. Searle New York Review Books, 1990 A gentleman reviews the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. + For everyone who missed Searle's reviews in The New York Review of Books... John Searle believes consciousness is a result of the biological properties of the human brain. To quote him exactly: "biological brains have a remarkable biological capacity to produce experiences, and these experiences only exist when they are felt by some human or animal agent." That does not ...