The Bookshelf

Monday, July 15, 2013

Michael Gazzaniga, Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain (2011)

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What do we want to be free from?  That is the question that drives Michael Gazzaniga's inquiry about free will and the science of the b...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven, The Archaeology of Mind, Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (2012)

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At its most fundamental level, the neurosensory system of every animal, including humans, is a physiological system related to monitoring ou...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Nessa Carey, The Epigenetics Revolution (2012)

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A recurring theme running through the posts on this blog is the recognition  of a unit of information as the fundamental units of physical n...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (2009)

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Edward O. Wilson's research on eusociality  led him to identify the nest as a common attribute among the eusocial species.  Although no...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Edward Humes, Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul (2008)

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Deception and religion have been joined at the hip for a very long time, perhaps as long as religion has existed in human culture given that...
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CSilcox
This blog is not intended to be a series of book reviews, although it might appear that way. My thought was to establish a discussion of ideas, scientific research, and even current events that just happened to follow from the sequence of books I am reading. Another objective is to connect dots: to make connections between what I have just read and what I have read in the past or may read in the future. Most of what comes off The Bookshelf is non-fiction and there tends to be a relationship between the subject I am reading now and what I just completed, but occasionally a work of fiction finds its way off The Bookshelf and perhaps something in the intellectual history of ideas to be shared in this space.
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