The Economist reads:

8 books about the brains and consciousness.

1. The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal by Larry Swanson

2. The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron by Benjamin Ehrlich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

3. The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience by Matthew Cobb

4. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

5. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind. by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

6. Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus. Houghton Mifflin

7. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth

8. The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

All added to the wish list, happy readings!

These books reveal why the brain is the biggest mystery of all economist.com/the-economist-reads/2024/… from The Economist