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Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ... by mjlee on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:50AM (#23151853)
I really enjoy books on neuroscience that change the way I think about perception.

Phantoms in the Brain by V S Ramachandran - a book about how the brain organises itself in bizarre edge cases. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes us Human. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes us Human by the same author is also worth reading.

Admissions by Henry Marsh - An experienced neurosurgeon's account of how his job has changed over the decades. Really interesting discussion of what's important and how people react in a real crisis.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks. More of a collection of interesting curiousities but does an amazing job of humanising the discussion of brain.

Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ... by pas on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:09AM (#23152723)
It's not a book, but a great infotainment lecture series by Robert Sapolsky (the intro to human biology course at Stanford, 2010)

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D

And of course cites Sack, and a lot of amazing research/studies/results.

The caveat is that some results are not that solid, and he mentions priming, which we know does not replicate.

Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ... by saheb37 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:03AM (#23151936)
I have quite enjoyed a couple of books by David Eagleman: The Brain, and Sum.
Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same ... by base2john on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:32AM (#23153224)
also great read is Tales from Both Sides of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga.