Category: Consciousness Books

Learn about the nature of the mind and the origin of consciousness with these recommended books on consciousness:

Does consciousness inevitably arise in any sufficiently complex brain? Although widely accepted, this view inherited from Darwin’s theory of evolution is supported by surprisingly little evidence. Offering an alternate view of the history of the human mind, Julian Jaynes’s ideas challenge our preconceptions of not only the origin of the modern mind, but the origin…

The Julian Jaynes Collection

Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness

The Minds of the Bible