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*{{cite book |url=http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=consciousness%2Bplays%2Ba%2Bsmaller%2Brole%2Bin%2Bhuman%2Blife+intitle:User+intitle:illusion&num=10 |title=The user illusion: Cutting consciousness down to size |author=Tor Nørretranders |isbn=00140230122 |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1998 |edition=Jonathan Sydenham translation of ''Maerk verden'' 1991 ed }} An excellent presentation of the history and recent science (up to the late ’80's) related to consciousness, by Denmark's leading science writer. | *{{cite book |url=http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=consciousness%2Bplays%2Ba%2Bsmaller%2Brole%2Bin%2Bhuman%2Blife+intitle:User+intitle:illusion&num=10 |title=The user illusion: Cutting consciousness down to size |author=Tor Nørretranders |isbn=00140230122 |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1998 |edition=Jonathan Sydenham translation of ''Maerk verden'' 1991 ed }} An excellent presentation of the history and recent science (up to the late ’80's) related to consciousness, by Denmark's leading science writer. | ||
*{{cite book |title=Flow: The psychology of optimal experience |author=Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |isbn=0060920432 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=epmhVuaaoK0C&pg=PT68&lpg=PT68 |year=1990 |publisher=Harper & Row }} The author's presentation of how to achieve happiness, "times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate".... "losing the sense of self in a flow experience, and having it emerge stronger afterward". | *{{cite book |title=Flow: The psychology of optimal experience |author=Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |isbn=0060920432 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=epmhVuaaoK0C&pg=PT68&lpg=PT68 |year=1990 |publisher=Harper & Row }} The author's presentation of how to achieve happiness, "times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate".... "losing the sense of self in a flow experience, and having it emerge stronger afterward". | ||
*{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nkPj3dNFYwoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain |author=David Eagleman |publisher=Random House Digital, Inc |isbn= 0307377334 |year=2011}} A national bestseller: | |||
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|<font face="Gill Sans MT">The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control. The vast jungles of neurons operate their own programs. The conscious you–the ''I'' that flickers to life when you wake up in the morning–is the smallest bit of what's transpiring in your brain. Although we are dependent on the functioning of the brain for our inner lives, it runs its own show. Most of its operations are above the security clearance of the conscious mind. The ''I'' simply has no right of entry...Your consciousness is like a tiny stowaway on a transatlantic steamship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot. | |||
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- Tor Nørretranders (1998). The user illusion: Cutting consciousness down to size, Jonathan Sydenham translation of Maerk verden 1991 ed. Penguin Books. ISBN 00140230122. An excellent presentation of the history and recent science (up to the late ’80's) related to consciousness, by Denmark's leading science writer.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. Harper & Row. ISBN 0060920432. The author's presentation of how to achieve happiness, "times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate".... "losing the sense of self in a flow experience, and having it emerge stronger afterward".
- David Eagleman (2011). Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 0307377334. A national bestseller:
| The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control. The vast jungles of neurons operate their own programs. The conscious you–the I that flickers to life when you wake up in the morning–is the smallest bit of what's transpiring in your brain. Although we are dependent on the functioning of the brain for our inner lives, it runs its own show. Most of its operations are above the security clearance of the conscious mind. The I simply has no right of entry...Your consciousness is like a tiny stowaway on a transatlantic steamship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot.
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